Untitled

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1285, 28 February 1883, Page 3

In criminal life it has often been observed that a strange fascination exercises itself, attracting the evildoer to the place which above all, from its association with the crime itself or its punishment, should be the most shunned by him. An instance of this occurred some time ago at the Water Police Court in Sydney. A man had been arrested on a charge of having brutally assaulted and robbed, in company with two others, a man passing through a park at Midnight. The prosecutor, whilst giving hie evidence in Court, said, ” I recognise the man in the dock as one of those who assaulted me then, looking at the crowd in the place in the Court reserved for the public, said, ** And I see the other two men who aided him in the Court.” The exits from the Court were at once blocked by the police, and the prosecutor then picked out the two remaining offenders from among the crowd, and they afterwards received sentences of three years' imprisonment each.