INVERCARCILL ASSAULT CASES.
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Invi'.rcaruii.l, Friday. Further charges against three young men in connection with the outrages on Good Friday were 'before the Police Court today. Foi assaults on two married women on the street, Rodgers and Prentice were sent t<> gaol for four months. Finnerty was acquitted, his part in the affair being tha spreading of his arms across the path afc some distance from the complainant. For assaulting Mrs. O'Sliannessy in her house, Rodgers received six months' concurrent with the previous sentence. On the charge of destroying a woman's property to the value »f £5, lie was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. The prisoners were the subject of popular indignation, being hooted and hissed a they left the Court for the gaol.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12853, 29 April 1905, Page 5
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