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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 894, 18 May 1903, Page 1

Ia the charge at the Auckland Supreme Court against Timothy Pacard Christian, after a retirement of ten minutes, the jury returned a verdict Of guilty. On hearing the verdict, the prisoner commenced to sob. On being asked whether lie had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him, he said : “ I can only say I am an innocent man. Oh, my wife ;my poor wife T ” When the prisoner had become somewhat composed, His Honor said he thought no one who had heard the evidence in this case could have the slightest doubt that the verdict of the jury was a perfectly just one. The evidence especially that of the child and of Dr. Walker, showed that a terrible outrage had been committed, and the evidence connecting prisoner will: the crime was (|iiite conclusive. There was only one kind of punishment which was lii for brutes like the prisoner. A being who could commit such a shocking and brutal outrage did not deserve the name of man. He would pass a sentence which he hoped would he a warning t 0 others—whether it would do the prisoner any good he could not say—not to commit such terrible crimes, i The sentence was one of ten years’ imprisonment with hard labor, and the prisoner was ordered to also receive two Hoggings, each oi twentyfive strokes with the cat. The prisoner, who had interrupted His Honor by again declaring his innocence, shrieked with terror on hearing his sentence pronounced, and lie continued his cries and struggled violently as he was removed irom the dock. For Influenza and Cold in the Head take Woods’ .Great Peppermint .Cure, it fid fend fii Hi