TWO WOMEN SENTENCES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 57, 6 March 1912, Page 8

TWO WOMEN SENTENCES.

BEVXH T£AKS' Pfr&ISOWXn.

JTTDGE*S SEVKKE COM3CU*

The quarterly session* of the Sanaa* C»urt at Auckland came to a elate m terday afternoon, before Mr. JnsS Chamnan.

-After deliberating f or tkaee and a aife hours, the jury return** a vemk* <f -guhy" in the case of B—aanaa Ham blyn, an elderly resident of Batata*! who vas charged with having naUwfaV ly us«d an instrument upanDaky w— • nah Bantt, of Cambridge, with \ \£m to procuring abortion-

Mr. V. E. Hackett extended a lew fc the leniency of the Court.

His Hejor said: "Prisoner, it is avert painful dlty which is imposed im»e to pass uvon you the sentence that tk* law reouies in this case. I hare. hoT ever, a vey dear idea of the waTT whu-h I am compelled to fulfil that dat» \ou have feen found guilty of t2 offence un del circumstances which n»S. me to say ,hat it was an absolatLv notorious inater a few months ago t2 a woman was convicted Of «.B.T»in Auckland, a offence wmiaitteHZ months before the commission rf i2 for which you s\„d convicted, and at? attracted publicattention in AnekS? I was myself died upon ""*•»• that woman. I; ih at £?*** operated on died but that waTd*. 1 !! the peculiar of the airL »U there was no M tummki' act was concerned. Mowover, 4*ei»»! circumstances herewhk* poutto £ conclusion that yoi M m that other woman, „* eoaaritttf <*k class of offence bef«e. nievewS that someone was ah, to noi*tth §1 house and to send you, and other jJiS,!. the finding in the placWaere too hSt cated that it would bftand, stniment suitable for fc tVgV-L that you charged a «unff act of the kind of a V^ t f^72!' U absolute stranger to yod, j _ J|T ** gard this as a pnjely waapj -tn gf* woman doing such an a*,!* ati* the shame of her family. I "Aarij mj it as the act of a worn »\aWlJtss money-making purposes, ** rTii »v painful duty to inflict a ***»*ea»e«e». ; ' Sentence of seven years' i>taa*m«a| with hard labour was paaV TW prisoner remained unmoved *!*■•**■* her ordeal- ~^l^^ CASE OF LILIAN LAi[. Lilian Lang, who was found mm *■ Saturday of having illegality TJT-ai'.' instrument upon a young Viwa Vete Potter, for tat 'pandit procuring abortion, was next ea£ '-, for sentence. Ti™ Mr. J. R. Reed asked his Honor tend the leniency of the Court st-ia» ; as was possible, pointing oat tatty jury had made a reconunendatnST mercy. \.

His Honor said there was no djsL tion between the two esses. If tissfl had not been pursued by the prill as a trade she must have known ef 1 ■other ease occurring in this city, at which was under investigation at tt very time when she was engaged it ha crime. A sentence of seven yean aid hard labour was passed. 1 A painful seen*, ensued. The pin Ottered a fainting cry, and as as* via being bodily assisted by the gaoies to the cells below, her husband, her asastter, and a domestic companion rest sj the empty court and failing davugbt tt wave their bewildered adieux. Oatoifa the court they fell upon a sett ia friar stricken collapse.