MAN SENT TO GAOL
FOR TERM OF 41, YEARS. ABDUCTION & THREATENING WITH FIREARM. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Convicted on four counts, involving abduction and threatening with a firearm, and the Court of Appeal having affirmed the convictions, William Alexander Crossan was sentenced today by Mr Justice Smith, to 4| years’ imprisonment with hard labour. The Judge said he was taking it into account that the prisoner had been in custody since the beginning of the year. His Honour added that the prisoner’s record was a bad one, with previous convictions for acts of violence involving the use of firearms. The public interest, whatever private circumstances might be, imperatively required that no person should be allowed to intimidate others in that way.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1943, Page 4
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