SUPREME COURT.
AUCKLAND SESSIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Yesterday. In the Supreme Court, a young man named Lewis Weeks Byron, was charged with indecently assaulting a small boy, and was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment and a further ten years' reformative treatment. Mr. Justice Edwards referred to the previous sentence of four years served by prisoner for a similar offence, and said he was the worst possible menace to society. A wild beast would be infinitely less menace to society. John O'Brien, charged with having wounded John Peter Smith with intent to do grievous bodily harm,'by stabbing Smith with a knife in the breast and leg, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. The judge > remarked that the prisoner was fortnjjate in not being charged with murder.'
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 232, 19 February 1913, Page 5
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126SUPREME COURT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 232, 19 February 1913, Page 5
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