HELD ON A FIRE.
1 SKIPPER GETS TWELVE YEARS FOR BRUTAL TREATMENT OF A GIRL. Samoel Leaning, -kipper of a Grimsby trawler, was at Lincoln Assizes, on Tuesday, February 6, sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment for the attempted murder of Catherine Tattlson. Leaning, who is forty-two, had lived wltli the girl, who is seventeen. Early In the morning of January 2 she was found lying naked and unconscious in a passage io Victor-street. The prosecution suggested that, after a quarrel between the couple, Leaning had beaten the girl into insensibility, stripped her, pushed her on the lire, and then turned her into the street on a bitterly cold nlzht. Dr. Westlake, who described the girl as being injured from head to foot, expressed the opinion that she had been knocked down and kicked about the floor, and then held on the fire. She was totally unconseions for three days, and had only been intermittently conscious for a fortnight.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 72, 23 March 1912, Page 17
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158HELD ON A FIRE. Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 72, 23 March 1912, Page 17
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