CANNOT ESCAPE LASH
TRANSVAAL FARMER WHO STONED NEGRO DECISION OF THE CABINET (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 9.5 a.m. CAPETOWN, Tuesday. The decision of the Cabinet not to recommend the Governor-General to exercise the Royal prerogative in the case of the farmer who was sentenced to lashes and imprisonment fos a result of the death of a native, is hailed as a vindication of justice, and probably will result in the establishment of a Court of Criminal Appeal. A Dutch Pretoria newspaper alone condemns the Cabinet decision on the grounds that corporal punishment has been abolished in all civilised countries. The case is one in which a Transvaal farmer was convicted of culpable homicide. Accused tied the native to a tree feet upward, and threw stones at him, breaking his ribs and breastbone. The judge said punishment would be inadequate unless it included physical pain. It is the first case of a white man being seriously punished for an assault on a native, and has aroused much comment. The lashing is not to be administered until the Prime Minister, General Hertzog, and his colleagues have carried out an investigation.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 640, 17 April 1929, Page 9
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194CANNOT ESCAPE LASH Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 640, 17 April 1929, Page 9
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