A Deserved Punishment.

Manawatu Herald, 22 January 1895, Page 3

A Deserved Punishment.

The roan Joseph Buchanan, charged with the abduction of Emily Young, aged 18 years, the daughter of a settler at Mangapai, Auckland, was sentenced on Wednesday. Mr Northoioffc, S.M., ***& *kafc & hid been shown that Buchanan Wai a partner and friend of the girl's father* and Was living in the house, in virtue of ' hie, position ■, aa oiie of the family. He waited uri'.il the father wds tiway from" hoitiej and there was nobody to follow him, and then stole out, as the girl had stated herself, between 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning (having arranged to get a horse the day before from a nest door neighbour), and travelled to Auckland with the girl. Although he knew the family were trying to find her everywhere* and that an adverttsemenfc had been put itt the papers, he still refused to allo w her parents to know where he had put her. He had afterwards obtained a situation for her in a house where, as the girl h&d aaid, no one had been as servant before herself. 'This place it had been shown was situated near defendant's home Mount Eden. Taking all these circumstances into consideration he thought it Was a most painful case for him to go through. He could scarcely have iningined that a man, a married ! man, could have been so base as the defendant had been shown to be throughout this case. He sentenced him to nine months' imprisonment ' with hard labour.— Prt-es Association.