THE IMPRISONED BARONET.
(FROW OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Auckland, November 16. The New Zealand Herald has the following in respect of. the agitation regarding Sir 1 Charles Burdett’s sentence If honesty won’t come to us naturally-, wo must : accelerate it .with the whip; upd we hold that, in every case in whicn any sneak-thief is found plundering our public parks, he should be visited with condign severity. The fact of his happening to be"a baronet should be no bar to punishment, and if the public feeling is worked up for the release of a baronet, we shall not, with anv regard for decency, be enabled .to enforce the law against hoodlums of humbler lineage. We emphatically assert that the thanks of the public are cordially due to the Justices who have ' visited this vulgar crime with impartiality, and we hold that it will he a disgrace to the Colony and a reflection on the; administration of justice if the. Executivo presumes to interpose and to relieve by one iota the very moderate and entirely just punishment that has been inflicted for such a mean and indefensible offence.”
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 873, 23 November 1888, Page 33
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186THE IMPRISONED BARONET. New Zealand Mail, Issue 873, 23 November 1888, Page 33
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