A SALUTARY SENTENCE.
(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, May 20. In the Supreme Court, Mr Justice Chapman, in sentenein'*: William John Frederick Moore, a young man. charged with a grave "assault on a girl r.t Wark worth, elescribed the offence as one of the gravest crimes ho had ever heard of, being attended with a degree of brutality seldom heard of in the' Dominion. It was scarcely possible t-e conceive of a worse case, so far as foulness and cruelty we-rO concerned. He imposed a sentence of fourteen years' hard labour and ordered two Hogging**., each of twenty strokes.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13744, 27 May 1910, Page 9
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98A SALUTARY SENTENCE. Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13744, 27 May 1910, Page 9
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