LIFE IMPRISONMENT
J. S. CRAWFORD SENTENCED FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER. DEATH OF TWO MARINES. (By Telegraph—-Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. Found guilty of murder on both counts, John Sidney Crawford, South African seaman, aged 26. was sentenced by Mr Justice Smith in the Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday, to imprisonment with hard labour for life. “I agree entirely with the verdict of the jury,” said his Honour. “You acted like a ruthless bandit in murdering two young defenceless men of the United States forces who had given you no offence or provocation whatsoever. Many may think you will suffer little by comparison, but as that is the sentence fixed by law for any number of murders, I now proceed to impose that sentence. The sentence of the Court is that you be imprisoned with hard labour for life.” After he had pased sentence he excused the members of the jury from further service for four years.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 May 1943, Page 2
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