THE WAIHI CASE
FIAT JUSTITIA
(To the Editor.) Sir,— I quite agree with your correspondent, "A Taranaki J.P. ," on the failure to execute the solemn judgment of the law in the shocking Waihi case. The silence since the condemnation appears to indicate that the foul criminal who defiled and butchered a charming and virtuous young woman, and battered a fine promising lad to death as though he had been a rabbit, is likely to evade the just penalty of his devilry. Such pitiable leniency is only calculated to bring the law into disrepute, and to suggest to other miscreants that they will have immunity from the extreme penalty of the law should they launch out in similar misdeeds. The fine work of the police in tracing the crime and locating the crim* inal is practically nullified and virtually ignored. I am in favour of petitioning the Minister of Justice that the law shall take its course in this terrible case, if it be oply to excite contrition in the^perpetrator,. and deter others from ' like rrmrrtarniic: rvrnnpnsities. — I HIT1 GtC.,
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1940, Page 8
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179THE WAIHI CASE Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1940, Page 8
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