Attempt to Murder Manchester
ENCOUNTER WITH AN ARMED BURGLAR.
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was apprehended some days later;* Parkin? was taken to the infirmary, where ho remained for some days, the' wound • being a slight one because of blio thickness of clothes j trie bullet "had to penetrate. '-The woman was caught the same day. Horridge was | found guilty, and was sentenced to penal servitude for>lifo, and the woman, iov the ' burglary, was sent to prison 1 for eighteen months. ■ The Judge (Mr Justice Grantham) said that Horridge had been in prison almost ever since he was fifteen years bf age.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 237, 14 January 1888, Page 5
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194Attempt to Murder Manchester ENCOUNTER WITH AN ARMED BURGLAR. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 237, 14 January 1888, Page 5
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