SUPREME COURT
HAMILTON SESSIONS. ißy Telegraph.—Press Association.) HAMILTON, Last Night. At the Supreme Court, before Mr Justice Cooper, Joseph Matthews, a farmer, was acquitted of tlie alleged theft of a heifer; William . Fan-alley was found guilty of breaches of the .Bankruptcy Act, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment. In sentencing an . elderly man named John, Kennedy „for indecent assault on a girl,'twelve, .years of age, at iS'garuawaliia. His Honour said the, prisoner was the object of pity and compassion. In his opinion there should be «ome hospital between . a lunatic asylum.' and a general hospital, and not exactly a gaol, where a man suffering from this disease might be kept for a lengthy period. He ordered the prisoner to be detained for reformative treatment for ten years, and would make .a report 0:1 the case to the Prisonßoard.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 12 February 1913, Page 5
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138SUPREME COURT Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 12 February 1913, Page 5
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