A HUMAN BEAST.

NZ Truth, Issue 75, 24 November 1906, Page 5

A HUMAN BEAST.

Sensual Skeen's Sentences.

A: creature stood for sentence before Mr Justice Edwards at Auckland Supreme Court. Gaping 1 for aH the world like an imbecile thfs animal, named, for purposes of identification! possibly, Harry Skeen, listened to. his counsel pleading that he might be floggs-d,. Mr Reed explained that prisoner was already serving a sentence of 10 years' imprisonment for aii attempted rape on a woman m Tarahaki. ' Between the committal of that offence and his arrest, however, Skeen attempted to rape a married woman at Katikati, near Tauranga, and this was the charge to which he now appeared for sentence. Counsel explained that prisoner was a physical wreck, and he had a mania lot women. His parent* had asked him, Mr Reed, to plead : that under these sad circumstances his Honor would not order a I flogging. Judge Edwards said he would" not order prisoner to be floe-s^d, but for public safety he mustr be kept away from women. He \vo\M be sentenced to another 10 years on this charge, cumulative on his present sentence. So the wretched man crept away from the haunts of man for some twenty years to conic. Another of life's handicaps.