“Suspended Sentence For Farmer Who Used Shot Gun,” The Porcupine Advance (Timmins). December 23, 193
“Suspended Sentence For Farmer Who Used Shot Gun,” The Porcupine Advance (Timmins). December 23, 1930. Page 06.—-The farmer at Moore’s Cove, who was charged recently at police court at Haileybury, with wounding, following the peppering of a youth thought to be out on Hallowe’en pranks, was allowed to go on suspended sentence. he admitted the shooting but claimed in extenuation that he had been annoyed for the past fifteen years by boys playing Hallowe’en tricks, some of them causing him loss and damage. The boy had received a number of pellets from the shot gun but has since fully recovered from the injuries. Another boy also received some of the shot, but did not lay any complaint. -- source link
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