SUPREME COURT.
[Per Press Association.! 'Wellington, November. 7
Two prisoners were sentenced byMr Justice Chapman. Harry Somes was sent to gaol for five years with hard labour for a serious offence on a young girl. The. Judge said legislate was not provided for flogging for a ease of this kind, otherwise the prisoner would have been perilously neai being punished in this way. The Court had imposed on it a solemn duty guarding the honor of young people of this country. Personally, he always held that as the most solemn duty. In leaving the dock, prisoner said: “As there is a God above me, I am innocent.” Samuel Charles Minifio was sentenced to two years’ hard labor for assault on his wife, causing her actual bodily harm, and three yeats’ reformative treatment for false pretences.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 57, 7 November 1913, Page 6
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