LABOURER IMPRISONED.
GUILTV 0F SERIOUS OFFINOIU. ” These are shocking offences." observed Mr Justice Fair ln the Supreme Court at Hamilton yesterday in Imposing sentence or two years‘ imprisonment with hard labour on Ilenry Joseph Newman. aged 50, labourer, of Te Puna, who was found guilty on three counts of indecent assault. .\lr 11. 'l‘. Gillies conducted the prosecution and the accused was rcprcscnlcd by Mr \V. Noble. of Auckland. .\lr Gillies said .\‘cwman‘s record comprised 16 convictions over a period from 1907 to 1928 and it would appear that he was mentally unbalanced, Most of his lapses. however, Involved theft and drunkenness and he had not previously been arraigned’on charges of a sexual nature,
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19902, 3 June 1936, Page 6
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114LABOURER IMPRISONED. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19902, 3 June 1936, Page 6
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