CORRESPONDENCE.
"THE SENTENCE OF THE COURT." [To the Editor of the Daily TeIeGXAPH.] ' Sir, —There are two items of news in your issue of yesterday which present a glaring instance of the glorious uncertainty of the law, of the unequal manner in which justice (?) is meted out to criminals. Your extract in reference to the frauds of the notorioua James Nicol Fleming, formerly a director of the City of Glasgow Bank, came first under notice. I read the particulars of iniquitous robbery of tbe funds entrusted to his charge, of his false balance-sheets, of his breach of trust, bis wilful impositions, his embezzlement of nearly £600,000, and I felt that imprisonment for the natural term of bis life would surely be bis lot. Be is let off with eight months ! In another part of your paper I read of a poor unfortunate woman, Flora Somners, who for simply being on the wrong side of a gentleman's garden fence is sentenced to six months imprisonment ivith labor 11 Fiat Justitia, Rtjat CcetuM. Napier, September 2, 1882.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3481, 2 September 1882, Page 2
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