AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 824, 24 February 1903, Page 2

AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT

SOME SHOCKING CASES,

FLOGGINGS OFFERED IN THREE INSTANCES.

Per Press Association

Auckland, last nigh:

The Supreme Court criminal sessions closed to-day. William Frighting, a survivor of the Eiiugamite, was sentenced to four years' imprisonment for indecent assault on a single woman at Waihi. Sentence was also pronounced in the case of three young Maoris at Rawene who assaulted a Maori girl under 10. Te Walta Kireka, found guilty of rape, and llimene Tipere, found guilty of attempted rape, were each sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment, and each to receive two floggings of 25 strokes of the cat. Te Puke Tipere, found guilty of attempting to carnally know the girl, was sentenced to live years’ hard labor. Goo. Rudolf, a halfcaste convicted of rape on his 10 year old daughter at Otorohanga, was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment and two Hoggings, each of 25 lashes. William McLeod, found guilty of indecent assault on a young boy, was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. Geo. Vernon Armor, who pleaded guilty to breaking into the premises of his employer and stealing £53, was sentenced to twelve mouths, and the same sentence was imposed in the caso of Edwin Bclhorall, who pleaded guilty to a churge of breaking, entering, and theft at Mangere.

The Rawene caso was a very bad one. The girl had been sent to get medicine for her sick father. On riding past the whare the men invited her to stay for something to eat. She refused, aud pushed on to the dispensary for the medicine. On returning she again, refused an invitation to stay, but was lifted from her horse. After being given something to eat she was given an apartment to herself, from which she ineffectually tried to escape. Subsequently the offences occurred.