GIRL HIT WITH BOTTLE
Per Press Association.
MAN HELD FULLY RESPONSIBLE NINE MONTHS' REFORMATIVE DETENTION.
DUNEDIN, This .day. Stating that when Stan' y Redveys Buller struck a sleeping girl, aged six years, over the liead with a bottle he was fully responsihle for his act,_ Mr Justice Ivennedy sentenced tlie prisoner to nine months' reformative treatment. IMedical evidence was given that tlie prisoner sliowed no signs of insanity hut that the crime could he attributed to his drinlring prior to the offence. The girls' skull was fractured. The judge said that the prisoner was fortunate that he was not charged with murder. The true explanation of the prisoner's conduct was that he had struck tlie girl to spite her father. ARliough it was sdme lyours_ since the prisoner took a drink, his lnind at the time was apparently in aii irritated condition. . It* might he' said in the prisoner's favour that when _ ' he thought he had lnurdered tlie _ girl he immediatelv weiit to the police and the latter's timely assistance may liave saved the girl's life.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 256, 1 December 1930, Page 9
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176GIRL HIT WITH BOTTLE Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 256, 1 December 1930, Page 9
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