DUNEDIN, Last Night.
Mr and Mrs Wain, found guilty of manslaughter, were brought up for sentence this morning. The male prisoner pleaded that the Judge would be lenient on his wife's account. The Judge refused to reserve the point raised by Mr Denniston, ,saying that the medical evidence was absolutely clear. Addressing the prisoners, he said he concurred, in the verdict returned by the jury. Whilst giving weight to the jury's recommendation to mercy, he pointed out that if the prisoners had by their act contemplated the child's death, they ,were guilty of murder. Bte thought the prisoners were animated towards the child by a wicked, evil spirit. He sentenced each to seven years' penal servitude. The sentences on the, Wain's caused some surprise, but the general feeling is that the female prisoner got her deserts. In the police sheets \ she figures as a woman of violent temper and a bigamist.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1721, 17 July 1883, Page 2
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151DUNEDIN, Last Night. Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1721, 17 July 1883, Page 2
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