Heartless Case of Abduction

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 69, 11 December 1886, Page 3

Heartless Case of Abduction

MELBOURNE. Dl'CPllllxT 1. At tne criminal sessions last week Herbert Get*. Aiiller was charge-l with abdicating Susan Bad ford, a girl of fifteen years of age. Miller hail fall oil on tlu> mistress of the girl Badford, and represented that he wished to procure a servant girl for a situation up country. After same negotiations the mistress consented to Radford going, thinking it would be for iipr benefit. Miller procured a buggy and pair, believed to have been stolen, and tu.;k the girl away. He toot her ; a two days' drive into tho country., She artenvards informed the police. Iv sentencing the prisoner the Chief Justice said that no case had ever come uuder his notice in which a. y more deliberately planned attempt had been made to ruin a child than that which had b^ea proved against the prisoner, he had no excuse of sudden passion or affection, but laid himself out to effect his object upon the first victim he could secure. The only proper punitjliment for a man like him was a severe flogging, such as would linger in his memory during the whole of his life, and leave a sense of bitter physi- ■'■ cal pain and utter degradation. The law did not permit him to lnfliet such punishment, but he would impose a "penalty that he hoped would be a " warning, not only to him, but also to other young men, who sometimes •earned to have no pity and respect for woman, and to have lost all sense of their own manhood. The sentence of the Court was that the first week of the term and the first week of each of the Last four months to be passed in solitary confinement, and during the residue of this term that he be kept to hard, labor.