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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 103, 21 December 1868, Page 308

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’ r>;Hl?^V?-4l;^®®®Vc.'^Thwihdtbri6usT®6i^' : :;] i bar- ■ mg intdhri again • ‘ ; Qnqtjve^^thyultii 1 ? i foar was stealing; ; sion.asefc of skeletop; ; ;• bKakingirintora^edsmanagitfepjat.Bughtv i and'oSiffJdlipMreryr.;';. and.the'.fodi^l^^ildrugsj 'Strychnihei- *oloroforin, ■*' araenic, henbane, JjSF^the flrstmatried (to six monthsimpriSonmentwith harddatior j ihehtTwitli .nardnabori’.jßntf fuetifeio last-charges -he'' was; committed for /trial at, the CoUrti ' He] was 'brought up 6h' ihstV and pleaded guilty. Tbeterminafion of the case we quote from tlie Otago—Witness- of* the ’l2 th:—“ In answer to', the Judge’s Associate, the prispner said liis age walq’ss. He, had no* thing to say why judgment should not be .passed .upon/, him. (Che Judge ,-aaid—-In passing sentence; on you Henry Y Chirrat, i m'ustjSpeak ,i'n: a very - different7,tbne; from tb^tjih.wliich.l:have; addressed; any.otherprisoner convicted at the present session.. Your career/ as far ‘ .as it ( : has been one of continuous ..crime, both,£a this andanotherholpnyin.which-yourliyed. I shall feel it my duty to hpjnb timo‘at least, you shall have nowopporiu" nity of committing /further* crime. I have .before, me two indictments;'to; which you havepleidel gul*y, chargiiiglypu with'the serious crimes of housebreaking'.and robbery j and* when'T consider,’ in at‘all eventß,"'the nature' of articles you hav.a ; stolen—the poigonour selected'from the chemistaahop—-I cannot doubt..thaL had you not been, arrested, you would'in all probability.have been standing in that dock to answer for, the highest: crime known. to ; the law. But for. that evil; .intent, ,you will .have; to: answer :to another and higher Judge than -I. I feel it my duty to updn you what wxll, in all probability, prove-a life-long sentence at your age; But there, is one last an highest .Tribiahalj and criminal, accuser and accused, must one day appear, and l exhort you to spend the remainder of your dajs,* imprisoned as you will be, in preparing for the last and most'awful Tribunal." And if . you do so, you will feel grateful eventually that - your career, of crime is cut short, even by a life-long l ' imprisonment. . The sentence of the Court is, that for each of the crimes you have committed, you be sentenced.to ten years penal servitude, and the sentences be cumulative.” -_ _ -