ABANDONING AN INFANT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 221, 11 September 1908, Page 2

ABANDONING AN INFANT.

THE U'ANGANT). CASH. By Telegraph. ~ Tress Absoeiation. Paliuei'tson X., Thursday. Lolitia Broad, couvieU'd the previous din uf child nba'adunmenl ai Wacame tip for sentence yesterday. Uis Honor said he fell great diilienlty ill dotiTinininjj how to dval ■with the ease. 11, was a serious crime to abandovi a child, and the circnmstaiicos in\olved .uri'al suffering to tile elirid itself. The recommendation ol tin; jury was Ihe well though!-out and conscientious opinion of twelve men, and was a unanimous expression oi' opinion w'hieh lie proposed lo lake into consideration, and he felt he to he jruided by it. 'Phe jury had regarded the crime as ihe impulsive act of a voirng woman lnir-ih-nvd with a lie which she did not Vnnw Ikhv to rid her-elf of. Mis Honor was disinclined lo send young persona lo prison, and he accepted tlie rccom-. im-ndatinn of tho. jury, based as it was on the fact thnt prisoner was only 10 or 20 yours of age. lie was umrblo to irent her as a fust offender and allow her probation. The course ho was taking niiglif; lie misunderstood, hut Hk* di>t inct ion rested upon her youth and the veoinnvrndjition of the jure. Tie fcnd received a Totter from ! lior husband, a very proper letter.'showing he was an lioiomhie man. ]iroinisi;ig to take nroper care of his wife in the future. ■' The order of ihe Court 'would be that prisoner be brought up for s,<n!'enee wh:»n cnllpd upon.