CONVICTION OF A GAROTTER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1659, 14 April 1884, Page 2

CONVICTION OF A GAROTTER.

■ [Sydney Telegraph.] Willilin Game, who was found guilty of assaulting, and. robbing one Thomas Rose, who arraigned at tlie ; Central Criminal Court, before his Honor, Sir James Martin, on a charge of garrettingtlio said Thomas Rose on the 20th December last, Prisoner appears to have met prosecutor, a" wool- 1 sorter from Nyngan, up for a holiday, and to have gorio.with him for a walk : through the Domain and round Woolloomooloo Bay, When near the baths, he seized Rose by the throat, ■ and choaked him till; he was nearly insensible, saying, " Look here, I am a desperate man, I want a fiveiyand a fiver I'll have. If you don't'go to the bank you told me of, and give me. ( a fiver, I will kill you."- At the sanfr time'the prisoner drew a knife. Rose, who is an old men, begged for ineroy and promised to go, and prisoner then said, "If I see any b—y doggery on your, part on the way, I'll drive this knife into your heart even in the street itself," Medical evidence was given to provo. the injuries inflicted on prosecutor were very severe, Detective O'Sullivan proved the arrest of prisoner, on a charge of assault and robbery, His Honor having summed up briefly, the jury without retiring from the box brought in a, verdict of guilty. His Honor then passed a severe but' well-deserved sentence on the prisoner, remarking that the case was a flagrant and most daring one.' Prisoner , would, be Imprisoned for .lO.yeara,-with hard; labor, for,the garotting, and would:' receive 75 lashes in three, instalments'—25 on the 21st March, 25. on'the' 21st June, nnd'2s on the 21st August; next ensuing, • - < Prisoner, on hearing tho sentence.] said "What '" Three whippings, your, Honorf arid tiin&d perceptibly,, i The same prisoner ..was then brought •up with" Jam® Smith, on a charge pf' assault and robbery in connection with the same case, and received a .concurrent sentence of 10 years' penal servi tude.