THE “CAT”
SCOURGE FOR BRUTAL ROBBERS Two sentences of the “cat” passed on men for violent and brutal attacks on women were upheld, and in both cases the court expressed the opinion that the sentences, if anything, erred on the side of leniency. "William Wilseher, a middle-aged miner, had been sentenced at the Leeds Assizes to five years’ penal servitude and 20 strokes with the “cat” for robbing with violence Miss Pressick. a cook at a tuberculosis sanatorium at Cottingham, near Hull. He hit the woman six times on the head with a bludgeon made of a piece of stick and a Mills bomb, left her nearly dead in a field all night, and made off with her purse, in which was £3 3s. Henry Douglas Thompson, having attacked a girl with violence and criminally assaulted her at Baildon. i near Otley, Yorkshire, was sentenced at -Leeds Assizes to 18 months’ hard labour and 20 strokes with the “cat.” He was identified, said Mr. Justice MacKinnon, by the fact that he sold a wrist watch which the girl had given him as a persuasion to leave her when telie was nearly insensible.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 116, 6 August 1927, Page 13
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192THE “CAT” Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 116, 6 August 1927, Page 13
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