SHOCKING CASES.
A LIFE SENTENCE.
(Per Presa Association.)
Timaru, last night, At the Supreme Court to-day the Orai assault-with-iotent case was re-tried, 'aod accused, Leonard Harris, was found guilty and sentenced to four years. A negro, John. Williams, was convicted of an unnatural offence with a boy and was sentenoed to imprisonment for life. He is 46 years of age, and ha 9 .spent half his life in gaols In the colony, chiefly long sentences for house-breaking, The Judge ea ; d he seemed determined to live in defiance of the law, apd.said such a dangerous animal had better be kept out of sooicty.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1559, 15 September 1905, Page 2
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