FLOGGING ORDERED

Taranaki Daily News, 3 November 1926, Page 9

FLOGGING ORDERED

WOMEN MUST BE PROTECTED. JUDGE’S STERN COMMENT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. At the Supreme Court to-day, in sentencing John Henry Wall, who was found guilty of rape, Mr. Justice MacGregor said the prisoner had been found guilty of the crime on a respectable married woman. While the prisoner was in Australia he had been convicted of numerous offences. He came to New Zealand at the end of 1923 and between 1924 and 1925 was convicted six times and finally at Wellington on December 18, 1925, he had been sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment with hard labour for horse stealing and theft. After serving nine manths of that sentence he wus liberated at Auckland by the Prisons Board, on license, and made subject to a probation order. He then apparently came direct to Wellington and went to live in a hotel at Petone, where he evidently took to drink and committed the grave crime of which he now stood convicted. The maximum punishment for rape was imprisonment with hard labour for life and a flogging once, twice or thrice. His Honour said it was his clear duty to impose a severe penalty for the prisoner’s brutal crime. Respectable women bad to be protected from men of the prisoner’s type, who were really not fit to be at large. His Honour sentenced the prisoner to imprisonment with hard labour for ten years and ordered that a flogging of fourteen strokes be given on the gaol surgeon’s certificate. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH BURSARIE§ FOR STUDENTS. SPECIAL FUND FOR PROVISION. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. An appeal for funds for the provision of bursaries for theological college students was mad© by the Rev- Dr. J. Gibb, of Wellington. He said there was an urgent need for ministers in the church and he was endeavouring to raise £lO,OOO. of which £7OOO was already in sight, towards bursaries for students.