Dunedin Supreme Court.
THE CHARGES AGAINST THE CHINAMEN. (Per Press Association.^ Dunedin. June 12. At the Supreme Court to-day, in the case of the Chinaman, Toomay Hoy, charged with defiling a child under the age of consent, the jury returned a verdict of guilty, with a recommendation to clemency on the ground of the character of the girls and his possible ignorance of the law. Justice Williams, in passing a sentence of two years' hard labor, remarked that he paid attention to tbe recommendation. Two separate juries returned a verdict of not guilty on the two charges against Ah Kume, the evidence of the girls being considered unreliable. For setting fire to three stacks of oats Matthew Findlay Patterson was sentenced to five years, His Honor observing that if ib turned out the man was weak j minded the clemency of the Crown could > be invoked. \
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 290, 13 June 1896, Page 2
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