A deserved Punishment.

Manawatu Herald, 24 November 1898, Page 2

A deserved Punishment.

Mr Justice Edwards and a jury of which Mr George Brown was foreman^ were occupied in the Supreme Court during the greater part of Monday in hearing a charge against a young man named W. H. M. Jobson of haying attempted to carnally known two little girls. Prisoner who pleaded not guilty was not defended by counsel. The jury, after 10 minutes' retirement, returned a verdict of guilty, and recommended that severe corporal punishment be ordered in addition to • any sentence imposed on the prisoner. His Honor, in passing sentence, 9aid this was a case in which he^gi entirely concurred with the jury, anc J W it was painiul duty to follow the recommeadationjof the jury. It was a

case in which he felt bouud to add corporal punishment. It was impossible that in the annals of crime there could be a worse case of this description than that which had unfortunately occupied the attention of the jury that day, and it was necessary to deter ill-doers of the same description by filling them with a fear for their own bodies. The sentence of the Court in respect to the first case (a child under io years) was that prisoner be imprisoned in the Terrace Gaol with hard labour for seven years, and that he further receive 50 lashes with the cat-of-nine-tales, to be administered 25 at a time. On the other charge (a girl of 12 years) the sentence of the Court was that he be imprisoned for five years in the Terrace goal with hard labour, the term to be concurrent with the other sentence.— N.Z. "Times."