RAZOR SLASHING.
CALLOUS CRIME IN AUSTRALIA O Ci IMPRISONMENT AND FLOGGING.: Five years' imprisonment and 15 strokes of the cat-o’-nine tails was the sentence imposed by the Chief Justice, Sir William Irvine, on Sydney Kelly, 25, motor driver, who was found guilty of slashing John Alfred Penfold with a razor on August 30, following a quarrel about a woman in East Melbourne. . 4 The 1 Chief Justice directed that the flogging should be administered within the first two months of Kelly’s sentence. 1 “ You have been convicted on the clearest evidence of one of the most cruel and deliberate outrages that has ever come before this Court,” said the Chief Justice. “ After a fight with Penfold, you threatened to fix him, and accordingly, not in the heat of passion, but some hours later, you, accompanied by a number of men went to Penfold’s house and overpowered him. “ While you held his wrists, you called one of your associates, who executed the punishment. This man then proceeded to slash Penfold’s face with the razor while you held him powerless. “ This savage and barbarous practice is becoming too rife in the community, and must be checked.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18140, 3 October 1930, Page 11
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194RAZOR SLASHING. Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18140, 3 October 1930, Page 11
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