A TERRIBLE CRIME.
DUNEDIN, January 28
A horrible outrage was committed on a chi d, aged three years and a half, at St. Clair, late cn Saturday evening. Samuel Flaherty, aged twenty-five, lured the child among the sandhills, and brutally treated 1 her. A man named Cox caught Flaherty, and took him- to the •station. The child is in a- critical condition. Flaherty was brought before the Magistrate this morning, and remanded till Friday. He was hooted and groaned at by a large crowd, and after the proceedings the police took him away pri_ vately." He maintains silence, and affects insanity. This is the second ease of its kind within two months. The press and the police kept the former ease ouiet, hoping the man might be found, but the search was unsuccessful. The victim in the first case is seriously injured, but the doctor hopes to save the victim of Saturday’s outrage.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1509, 31 January 1901, Page 32
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153A TERRIBLE CRIME. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1509, 31 January 1901, Page 32
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