GIVE US THE CAT
BIGAMISTS' UNUSUAL REQUEST. John Henry Saunders and James Stanley, both of whom had been convicted of bigamy at the Central Criminal Court in London, received 12 months' and IS months’ hard labour respectively! asked the Court of Criminal Appeal to set aside their sentences and to impose strokes with the “cat” instead. Mr Justice Darling said the law did not allow strokes with the cat o’ nine tails to be given for bigamy, and consequently the Court could not consider the applications. If the law had allowed them to substitute the “eat” for a term of imprisonment, they might have considered the applications with a disposition to oblige the prisoners. ______________
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Southland Times, Issue 18816, 8 May 1920, Page 3
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114GIVE US THE CAT Southland Times, Issue 18816, 8 May 1920, Page 3
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