Disgraceful Conduct.
(Per Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, May 31. In iho Supreme Court to-day Albert Prentice, aged 23. and Thos. Itcrmnd Finnerty, aged 22, were lound guilty of rape on Mrs 1 O'Shnnnesy in East Invereargill on GooS Friday nightj, with revolting uUrabe :tiil The evidence showed that five men having forced ; iheir way into her house, and treated the woman most outrageously, afterwards destroyed her belongings and, windows.: fi i%|| Prentice, who is a hairdresser, came from Victoria in 1902, and has been twice convicted here of unprovoked assaul.s on women ; in the first case on the landlady of an hotel who ordered him olt the premises for misbehaviour, and in the second on a married woman walking home with her husband on the night of and previous to the commission of the major offence. I'innerty is a native of Invcrcare/ill, who had gone 10 the bad, having; abandoned his home. His Honour Justice Williams said he would consider what sentence he would pass.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7837, 1 June 1905, Page 3
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164Disgraceful Conduct. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7837, 1 June 1905, Page 3
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