HEARTLESS CASE OF ABDUCTION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1523, 9 December 1886, Page 3

HEARTLESS CASE OF ABDUCTION.

Mei/boubwb, December 1. At the criminal aessione last week Herbert George Miller wm charged with abducting Suian Radford, a girl of fifteen years of age. Miller bad called on the mistress of the girl Bedford, and represented that he wished to procure a semnt for a situation up country. After some negotiations the mistress consented to Bedford going, thinking it would be for her benefit. Hiller procured a buggy and pair, believed to be stolen, and took the girl away. He drove her a two- days’ journey into the country. She afterwards informed the police. In sentencing the prisoner the Chief Justice said no ease bad over come under his notice in which a more deliberately planned attempt had been made to ruin a child than that which had been proved against the prisoner. He had no excuse of sudden passion or affection, but laid himself out to effect his object upon the; fiift victim that he could secure. The only proper punishment for a man like him was a severe flogging, such as would linger in his memory during the whole of his life, and leavs a sense of bitter physical pain and utter degradation. The law did not permit him to inflict such punishment, but ho would impose a penalty that he hoped would be a warning, not only to him, but also to other young men, who sometimes seemed to have no pity and respect for woman, and to have lost all sense of their own manhood. The sentence of the Court was that ha be imprisoned for aix years, the first week of the term and the first week of the last four months to be passed in solitary confinement, and during the residue of this term that he bo kept to hard labor.