HEAVY PUNISHMENT FOR RAPE
A BLACKGUARD MEETS HIS REWARD. (BY TELEGRAPH.) Wellington, July 4. At the Supreme Court to-aay Ja mes William Ellis, aged 22, was, without hesitation, convicted of a most brutal criminal assault on Mary Eliza O'Connor aged 11 vears, at Greytown. Judge Bicbmond, in passing sentence, said : — *' You have beea convicted on the clear•est evidence of the most brutal case I have ever had to deal with as a criminal judge. I must make you an example. Your crime is one that disgraces humane nature. It is the crime of a brute, and you must receive the punishment of a brute. Prisoner was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment, and two floggings of 30 lashes each.
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 6, 5 July 1882, Page 3
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