POST OFFICE NOTICES.
. MAILS CLOSE. For the United Kingdom via Suez, Marseilles and Brindisi, India, China, Japan, &c.; and for the Australian Colonies, per s.s. Eangitoto, on Monday, at 10 a.m. SYDNEY J. DICK, Chief Postmaster.
The Melbourne papers at present abound with complaints as to the administration of the criminal law. Draper has by some means or other escaped with a nominal punishment. On the other hand, Ah Pew, the Chinaman sentenced to death for the Glenluce murder is supposed by a good many to be the wrong man, and his probable fate is put forward as a parallel case to that of David Young hanged for the Daylesford murder, which there is good reason for supposing was committed by a woman. The Melbourne papers say that though the Glenluce tragedy (the violation and subsequent murder of a little girl) was a very horrible one, yet its horror i;i likely lo be increased by hanging an innocent man. Again, a very short time ago, a man was charged with committing a gross outrage upon a married woman, in the market ; the offence, if proved, was of sufficient gravity to have eutitled the culprit to several years' penal servitude, but the evidence was weak, and the justices compromised the matter by giving him two months' imprisonment — queer justice this.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 129, 3 June 1870, Page 2
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219POST OFFICE NOTICES. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 129, 3 June 1870, Page 2
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