CHRISTCHURCH.
' • "- ' ; ' Wednesday. ' , the Magistrate's . Court zto-day, Samuel Ne^dham,-; charged; with an attempt to commit; :a>\ rape, jon his own. ■daughter.,; iwasibrpught p.p. The toaigistrate saM he had decided to deal summarily with the case. He did not think tlie interests of justice .would suffer by him adpptingitha,t coiirse,~and the interests of the pubjic certainly would not "sufferj hy it^lt Wjas probable, on the; jevidence, that^the prisoner, if , taken befpre ; a .jury, wp^ld/be acquitted of •■McV attempt^^6 06mmib a^fap^". There was just a' lboph'ole'of escape,? there.f ore, he would deal; summarily with the ;case^ "PriSpnet -^as • ceEtaiMy^gtiiHy'-'of a most 1 aggravayd ,-a;ssauit pu'f>aKreriiale, and . would : receive f |heiSeTerrest^^ ! the^^y?naEle^^(Hx monk's ipiprisonnienty i with rhs. t f 4,>labout > , anb? at'the 'expiratidn Jof {|]KKt;.tifeie .'-He; would have to find -siibislani^al' sureties Jor.hjs, good conduct foi a ;fttr;fcheilperiod of six. months^' f.' 'v^-}; h'Y.vijiVj.. . ; 'jj,.,, -■
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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 95, 15 September 1877, Page 2
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