THE LASH ORDERED.
[United Press Association.] Auckland, May 26. At the Supreme Court. Mr Justice Chapman, in sentencing William John Frederick Moore, a young man, charged with a grave assault on a girl at Warkworth, described tho offence as ojio or tho gravest crimes over perpetrated, being attended with a degree of brutality seldom heard of in the Dominion. ' It was scarcely possible to conceive a worse, case so far as foulness and cruelty Avere concerned. His Honour imposed a sentence of fourteen years' hard labour and'orderod two floggings, each of 20 strikes.
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Colonist, Volume LIi, Issue 12804, 27 May 1910, Page 3
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93THE LASH ORDERED. Colonist, Volume LIi, Issue 12804, 27 May 1910, Page 3
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