WORSE THAN SAVAGES.
RUFFIANS AT INVERCARGILL. .(Per Press Association,) Invercargill, last night.
I At the Supreme Court to-day Albert Prentice, aged 33, and Thos. Bernard Finnerty, aged 32, wore found guilty of rape on Mrs O’Shannessay, in East Invercargill, on Good Friday night, with revolting ultra-bestial circumstances, five men, having forced their way into her house and treated the woman most outrageously, afterwards destroying her be- | longings and windows. Prentice, a hairdresser, came frem Victoria in 1902, and has been twice convicted here for unprovoked assaults on women ; in the first case on the landlady of an hotel, who ordered him off the premises for misbehaviour,and in the second on a married woman walking home with her husband on the night of, and previous to, the commission of the major offence. Finnerty is a native of Invercargill, who has gone to the bad, having abandoned his home. His Honor, Mr Justice Williams, said he would consider what sentence he would pass.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1469, 1 June 1905, Page 2
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