A CASE FOR FLOGGING.
Per Press Association! • .Wellingtoßj Tuesday. Henry Toon ( a youth of about seven* teen years, who pleaded guilty at Pahiatua to a charge of forgery and utter, ing, was before Mr. Justice Button for sentence to-day. Counsel for accused said that, though accused's father 'was bankrupt, he would endeavor to raise £l2 10s, the amount involved in the forgery. The Judge remarked that he liad several cases of stable-boys in other parts of his circuit committed for forgery or theft. He did not Enow whether there was any connection between the two circumstances. H« would releaio prisoner on probation, but only on condition that his father should give him a sound flogging that he. would remember for a long time—a flogging such as boys would lmve got in the public schools of olden times. The money appropriated is to be repaid by instalments; also the costs of prosecution. •
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 23 October 1907, Page 2
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151A CASE FOR FLOGGING. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 23 October 1907, Page 2
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