ARSON CHARGES
“SOCIAL NUISANCE” THREE YEAR’S DETENTION (By Telegraph.—Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday “I can only take the view that you are a social nuisance of a particularly dangerous type,” said Mr Justice Northcroft, in the Supreme Court today in sentencing Robert Henry Butcher, single, aged 40 years, to to three year’s reformative detention on charges of arson. Counsel said that Butcher was subnormal but medical opinion did not consider him suitable for an asylum.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21215, 11 September 1940, Page 6
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74ARSON CHARGES Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21215, 11 September 1940, Page 6
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