HOTEL DRAMA
LAURIE & MRS LAYCOCK SENTENCED MEN GETS TWO YEARS' DETENTION. — WOMAN ADMITTED TO PROBATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. This Day. The final phase of the hotel drama in November last was witnessed in the Supreme Court today, the Chief Justice (Sir IVI. Myers) passed sentence. Francis Leonard Laurie having pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of Josephine Norton Laycock and attempted suicide, was sentenced on the first charge to two years' reformative detention and on the second was convicted without sentence. Mrs Laycock, having pleaded guilty to the charge of attempted suicide, was admitted to six months' probation.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 February 1940, Page 8
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99HOTEL DRAMA Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 February 1940, Page 8
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