SALAMAN’S TRIAL

Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1930, Page 5

SALAMAN’S TRIAL

SALAMAN CONVICTED. SENTENCE OF ONE YEAR. (By Telegraph—Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, Nov, 24. Found guilty of manslaughter, on one of four counts, the Indian herbalist, Abraham Wallv Mahomed Soloman, was to-day sentenced to twelve months’ hard labour by the Chief Justice, Sir M. Myers. fl'he jury took two hours and forty minutes to reach its decision. The charge on which -Salomon was found guilty wivs that on August 2nd. at New Plymouth, he hastened the death of Lyal Gordon Christie, aged six, and thereby committed manslaughter by omitting, without lawful excuse, to perform a legal duty assumed’ by him in respect of Christie in that attending to, and prescribing for him, he failed to use reasonable

care. After the jury’s finding, Mr O’Leary made a plea for leniency. The Judge, in reply, said: “I cannot lose sight of the fact that thin is a plain case of charlatanism. In geing lodgment, in a similar case in the Court of Apneal in England, the -fudge said that such oundts as the prisoner should not lie allowed to go unpunished. With that opinion I cordially agree.” A recommendation to mercy was endorsed on the indictment hv the jury, hut it was not mentioned aloud in court.