ROBBERY TINDER ARMS.
A FLOGGING ORDERED.
"This being a case of great personal violence, it is ordered that you be privately whipped with 15 strokes of the birch during the second month -of your imprisonment," said Mr. Justice Mann, in the Criminal Court in Melbourne recently when he sentenced David Collins, aged 18 years, clerk, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of having wounded Francis Frederick Thomas at Toorak, on May 9, wj,th intent to do grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Justice Mann said: "You had entered the house with felonious intentions, and when Thomas arrived you were rani sacking the place. Presenting a revolver at him, you tired two shots at a range of a yard and a-half. There can be no extenuating circumstances in such a case as this. You entered the house.'armed,' and were apparently prepared for, eventualities like ibis-" . : Collins was sentenced to imprisonment for six years with hard labour.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19061, 4 July 1925, Page 14
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