"GIVE US THE CAT."
BIGAMISTS' UNUSUAL REQUEST. John Henry Saunders and James Stanley, both of whom had been convicted of bigamy at the Central Criminal Court in Louden, receiving twelve months and eighteen months' Bard labour respectively, asked the Court of Criminal Appeal to set aside •heir sentence* and to impose strokes with the "eat" instead. Mr. Justice Darling said the law did ! not allow strokes with the cat o' nine tails to be given for bigamy, and confequently the court could not consider the applications. If the law had allowed them-! to substitute the "cat" for a term of im- ' prisonment, they might have considered the applications with a disposition to j oblige k\e prisoners. J
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17459, 1 May 1920, Page 2 (Supplement)
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