THE POMAHAKA TRAGEDY.
f On Saturday morning Mr Soloman askc ~ for mitigation of sentence oa the grnun , that the verdict of the jury expressly e> I eluded the notion Lli;it the woman wa ~ put, into the river, except for purposes ( I concealment after the result of a bloi s struck duringan unpremeditated quarre . He also asked the Court to draw a . analogy between the present ease, an ; Militancy's, in which four months' irr prisonnient were given for an assaul . committed with a more serious weapon | also in a quarrel, and which ended i , death. The judge said there was not th slightest, analogy between the two case; ; Matson's inans!augli:er was a kind < ; manslaughter very nearly approaehin i murder, and it would he quite out of th question to indict aiiythintr hut sever punishment. The sentence wjuld h ' twelve years' hard labour.
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Waikato Argus, Volume I, Issue 26, 8 September 1896, Page 2
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141THE POMAHAKA TRAGEDY. Waikato Argus, Volume I, Issue 26, 8 September 1896, Page 2
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