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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1980, 12 May 1875, Page 2

Referring to Phoebe Post (an account of 'whose trial we published recently) and her seducer, the M.A. Mail sayi:—" The victim shoots down the man whom she regards as her seducer, and if the circumstances are strong enough to put his identity beyond all moral doubt a sympathising jury acquit her, as the Albury jury have acquitted Miss Post of the minor offence of intent. The question for society to consider now is how far their ruling is likely to affect the general relations of young ladies in Miss Post's condition with their faithless lovers of the Donelly stamp.- Will the example be followed, and Miss Post become the cause of a new departure on thei part of Victorian ladydom in distress ?? .We dare say that the race of Donnellys is not confined to one spot, and there .are plenty of girls with-Miis Post's spirit, and possibly laboring under provocations as strong as hers. X If they adopted her as a precedent, we might possibly hear the crack of pistol-shots from the Murray to the sea. If the result was a moral revolution in Victorian bachelors, there, would be plenty of people, too, to find' excuses for the fair sportswoman, and we \are not sure that the end would not be beneficial to; the higher ointerest* of society."