A BRUTAL COUPLE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 442, 28 November 1908, Page 3

A BRUTAL COUPLE.

Shamefully 111-Treat a Girl. Dunedin, November 26. At the Supreme Court to-day George Edward Smith and Charlotte Elizabeth Smith, husband and wife, came up for sentence ou a charge of ill-treating and indecently assaulting a girl under the age o> 16 years.

His Honour, addressing the male accused, said : “It is impossible to believe that the degrading treatment which you meted out to this girl could have been done in an honest desire to reform her. That a girl when nearly 16 years of age should be laid nude upon a bed, strapped down and whipped by a man, is a tiling wlrch ii is im;.r sible to believe any sane man would do for the mere purpose of bringing a girl to a sense of right and making a respectable woman of her. It is about the last course anyone would adopt. That was done not only once, but several times, as a matter of fact. A man who would do these things must have a prurient and depraved mind.”

Iu referring to the diary, bis Honour said he thought the beastliness that was in it was not written spontaneously by a girl. “As for your wife,” the Judge continued, “the matter is different. No doubt she was under your control and did probably do what you told her. At the same time I cannot conceive that the woman who has any respect for her sex, would allow her sister, who was in fact a woman, to be treated by her husband iu the way in which you treated this girl. It is very satisfactory that there are counts in the indictment for indecent assault. It enables the Court to punish you as I think you ought to be punished. For the disgraceful way you have treated this girl, the sentence of the Court is that you, George Edward Smith, be imprisoned for a term of four years and kept to hard labour. The sentence upon you, Charlotte Elizabeth Smith, is that you be imprisoned for twelve months and kept to hard labour.”

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