SALAMAN GUILTY

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 52, 25 November 1930, Page 11

SALAMAN GUILTY

Prison for One Year DEATH OF A BOY Manslaughter Charge By Telegraph— Press Association. New Plymouth, November 24 Found guilty of manslaughter on one of four counts, the Indian herbalist, Abraham Wally Mahomed Salaman. was to-day sentenced to twelve months’ hard labour by the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers. The jury took two hours and forty minutes to reach its decision. The charge on which Salaman was found guilty was that on August 2 at New Plymouth he hastened the death of Lyall Gordon Christie, aged six years, and thereby committed manslaughter by omitting without lawful excuse to perform a legal duty assumed by him in respect of Christie in that in attending to and prescribing for him he failed to use reasonable care. In reply to Mr. O’Leary’s plea for leniency, Sir Michael Myers said: “I cannot lose sight of the fact that this is a plain case of charlatanism. In giving judgment in n similar case in the Court of Appeal in England, a Judge said that such quacks as prisoner should not be allow’ed to go unpunished. With that opinion I cordially agree.” The recommendation to mercy was endorsed on the indictment by the jury, but was not mentioned aloud in court.