AGAINST FLOGGING.
A MELBOURNE MOVEMENT. By Cable—Piees Association—Copyright. Received 29, 9.15 p.m. Melbourne, October 29. A strong movement, supported by the churches and labor "Bodies, is afoot to delete Moore's and McDonald's floggings, on the ground that such methods are savage and repugnant.
A Melbourne cable received on October 22 stated that the sentences of Edward Macdonald. a laborer who was sentenced to death for a criminal assault on a girl aged ten, at Melbourne on Septemr ?er 18, and G. Moore, who murderously assaulted Mr. Syme on September 19, had been commuted to imprisonment for life, with periodical floggings.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 139, 30 October 1912, Page 5
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100AGAINST FLOGGING. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 139, 30 October 1912, Page 5
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