RAPER RAYMOND.

NZ Truth, Issue 67, 29 September 1906, Page 5

RAPER RAYMOND.

Fitting Punishment for Brutal Crime.

Ten Years and Three Floggings. A Sentence That Should Act as a Deterrent. A sexTMiajniac of a most pronounced character, m the person of Robert Raymond, alias Lawson, pleaded guilty to an indictment- charging him With having attempted to commit rape on a married woman at West, port on July 7th. ! No evidence was given, but the facts of the case were briefly referred to. Raymond had endeavored to ravish a respectable married woman m the street. She was wheeling her child m a perambulator when prisoner attacked her. The circumstances were so extraordinary that persons m the vicinity who witnessed the attempt Tiad found it difficult to believe that prisoner's object was to commit a shocking crime. His Honor sentenced prisoner to ten years' gaol. with hard labor,; and to receive three floggings with- twenty strokes of the cat each time-. The infliction of floggings has caused much diverse comment ; but it should be remembered that the wild beast which is to be subjected to them was not content to endeavor to rape his victim, but that he smashed her face and head about horribly m his savage endeavors to render her insensible, so that he could effect his brutish purpose unopposed ; and that the struggle was one of long duration renewed after the poor young .mother had once escaped his satyr clutch. Besides all of which Raymond had a very bad record of crimes of various natures and is evidently a monster that should never Jiave another opportunity to injure or' assail his fellow-creatures..