Invercargill Desperadoes.
Per Press Association. Invercargill, Nov 17. At the District G urt to-day :i lad named Humphries was found guilty of unlawfully wounding a Japanese ou tho streets of Invercargill on a recent Saturday night by stabbing him with a knife, j sentence was deferred. A convi don in tills and recent eases of street ro vdyism by youths which are becoming von common lias given general satisfaction. Martin Johnston who threatened to shoot a constable who went to his farm to distrain for tho Vv.uimea railway rate and who previously informed Sir Robert Stout that lie would shoot anyone who attempted to felze his property for rates, was found guilty of attempt to do gri ■vmis bodily harm, the sentence was d l'erred. Counsel said ho would move to h.u.e the prisoner brv.tirlit tmd r !•’•••• P.vbaiimi .Am but Judge Una. 1 dill not think the Act meant to apply to such oiunces.
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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 139, 18 November 1887, Page 2
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