Three Cases of Rape.
HEAVY SENTENCES.
[by telegraph I (united press association.) I Dunedin, Jun. 30. I A.tthe Supreme Court, John Yorston, who was some days ago convicted of attempted rape on a married woman at Naseby, was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude, and M. E. G. Heals, for criminal assanlt on a girl nine years old at Taieri, also, got seven years.' Edmund Finch, on a charge of rape on a] Maori girl at Moeraki, was acquitted.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 57, 31 January 1883, Page 2
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79Three Cases of Rape. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 57, 31 January 1883, Page 2
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