PRISONERS FLOGGED
SENTENCE CARRIED OUT ROBBERY IN AUCKLAND GANGSTER " TYPE OF CRIME [BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON. Thursday The Minister of Justice, the Hon. J. G. Cobbe, announced to-day that the two prisoners recently sentenced in Auckland to 12 strokes of the cat-o'-nine-tails for assault and robbery, were duly flogged yesterday. The crime on which the two prisoners concerned, Francis John Peckham, a halfcaste Islander, aged 34, and William lveogh, seaman, aged 29, were sentenced, was one in which an accountant, carrying wages amounting to £146, was ' assaulted and robbed in Victoria Street, Auckland, in broad daylight. In sentencing the prisoners in the Supreme Court at Auckland on August 12, Mr. Justice Smith described the crime as of the "gangster" type. Peckham was sentenced to three years' imprisonment and a flogging of 12 strokes,, . arid Keogh to two years' imprisonment and a flogging of 12 strokes. It is believed to be some six years since a flogging was last carried out in Mount Eden prison by order of the Supreme Court.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21295, 23 September 1932, Page 11
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