Wellingtion Supreme Court
4-. The Murder Sasß
Hy Telegraph.-Press Association
Wellington, this day. At tiin Supremo (Joint Charles F Smith, a young nun, pleaded guilty to sticking tip a uning woman on a lonely hill vond near town, and (o robbing her, fcy force, of jewellery and money. Tho Judgo said it was a good thing for tho community that thero wei'o not many men in it liko the prisoner, or nobody would be safe. Ho was not sure that lie ought not lo order a flogging, for exemplary punisbiu'Jiit was neei'cd, He sentenced jiritoncr to seven years. The grand jury found a ivun bill of murder in the ease of James Burr, who shot onu Robertson in a setifllo in the house of Itorr's wife, where deceased lodged,
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1056, 2 August 1904, Page 3
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