PAWELKA'S SENTENCE
A correspondent writing to the New Zealand Times, under the nom de plume of "Scotty," says: "Sir, —Your leader in to-day's issue dealing with Joseph Pawelka's sentence will be read with approval by all lovers of justice, and it behoves them to rise to a man in indignation against the sentence. We read about our clever detectives and police force, but thc-y have f till to do something before such a st*.t ment canb e swallowed oy any person outside Porirua. Was there anything clever in allowing Pawelka to walk through an open door, and charge him with breaking gaol? Or was there anything clever in his capture, or the police methods in the alleged attempt? What steps were taken agair.st the officer who allowed him to walk out? I have failed to find anything in your columns relating thereto. I am na smpathiser of crime (neither am I with class justice), but I thought barbarity had long since been obliterated from all British possessions, , but still find traces of its revival in God's Own Country.—l am, etc."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10066, 11 June 1910, Page 6
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180PAWELKA'S SENTENCE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10066, 11 June 1910, Page 6
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