DISPOSAL OF BODY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1941, Page 9

DISPOSAL OF BODY

ACCUSED GETS PROBATION. ißy Telegraph—Press Association.l PALMERSTON N„ February 3. Pleas of guuty wore entered by Cecil Roy Plumb, aged 26, in the Supreme Court today, to charges that on October 17 in Palmerston North he used an instrument with intent to procure a certain result, and that on October 19 he disposed of the body of a child with intent to conceal its birth. Plumb was admitted to probation for one year. Counsel. Mr. J. M Gordon, said prisoner had always borne an exemplary character. He outlined certain circumstances which, had arisen m the case and made a strong plea for leniency. Plumb had made ait extraordinarily frank statement to the police, said counsel, and with, ul this statement the police might have had great ditficulty in proving the case against him. lii< Honour said ;l was a miracle that the young woman had not died of] complications following the act Pn-.-i oner had just blundered ah- id. > ; ,,tj nah*the appalling danger wh.ehj he was placing her. Probation wa-d alm< - t unheard . f m ca e< as ser.ous as the However. bis Honour said he had been impressed by cuimso!'?. representations, and there were other far-! tor< which his Honour menm-m-c