SHADOW Of A CRIME.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2000, 6 March 1914, Page 11

SHADOW Of A CRIME.

FAMOUS CASE RECALLED. ' STD-NEY. COUKT INCIDENT, An incident which recalled n remarkable attempt to -eseape the long imn of.tke law. ou.the part β-f.two men who W<3Te chitrgod with fl-rtirder took placr> ret -the Central Cowrt hi Sydney ' last week. ■ (iraec Palmer, a woman whoso fca* turns hore the imiwcss of msicJi bitter experience, was before the Co«rt'on a of ; .iiaviitg iiisiifGcjcnt ine-rius of. support.' : . Biie was convicted, hut Ijettre senteoco was imposed the 3iafis-. trate <Mr. WiUdnsoii, 8.M.) askn<3 tk Public ; I'-resecirtor (Scrß«vnt Jbukey) it anything ,vas knowj-i about the woman. ' ' Sergeant Manliey: "She has tiQpn known to thc) police for the kst 15 of ■20' ypars. Your Worship. She has ti'ec-u in- what miglit bn fesarded us tronbk all her life. The greater part of her life lias been speiit in this State, and .trouble' h tlis only word that cair fittifistv be-replied' to the onfortitnsto wemtku. ''Hot she : first landed in this -«omitr.Vi prpi'e;<led Boreeawt ISlanUey, "and what- iwivatiflns sho , and two male coasl*aiHoi)s sufftTed in getting here was some-, time' ago a story that attracted attention throughout Australia and Now Zealand. About 20 .years a-tjo two iwn —'Pagr.B}' and Pmii.i— ivere coiivicted. of the- mtmkr of TaylM, a settler onGreat Barrier' Island, near Awkknel. Infi.v-.securocl n boat, nud, taliiiip; a woman tvßh them, set out on one (if thft roost seissstioiml oversea, jouroeys vxgv aceonirjlisheq between, two ewm-f-rros,. AltcT cntlujiiiß the most sWlims t .privations, they landc-tl at the histwic town 'offmi Miftfi-viarip, after a voyage tliirin-i wisi-di they several t-inrn f.-iced death. . Imniodiatriy they landed, Or shortly afterwards, tho mwi weec ai-rest-ed liy Sinwriiitondeiit l?oche ami Constable May and cli»rsed"with tho erirao, tlie pnnishn-ront of wliieh t'npy liacl HRflihlr.-l so nwcli td.ewape. They ■ v ' r ' l l ,'r» ?ft"r« , ards esceut^d. "Ilip woman ivas not rharffotl with anv parlifipstion ii! thc-ennie.-'lmt' was bold ok tn» chief witness." get*. I'oant Manlity, "and on fi«r ev-idcDcc U\f conviclion wns That woliiftn stands hr-fpre vou. Yotir tt'orrfiift, and is GraceTalnior."' ' _ The pocused: 'Oh, yon need not t-"!! tiiat story attain I" Mr. WiKtJHKtn: '%he stows to he one nf those TOfortunote rre.nfiirps wlso nro heiter in i?aol than otrt of it." SewAiit Jl-nilcey: "I think so. tour Worship." .--■'■' l'nltnov was sent to gaoj for six mo'iitiis, "Thanlt you," she snitl, as she dtsaßßMrotl through the doorway, "I ltoi>o vohll he a corpse when I eouie out aaatn."