SALAMAN WILL GO TO PRISON.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19236, 25 November 1930, Page 14

SALAMAN WILL GO TO PRISON.

IS FOUND GUILTY ON MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE Per Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH. November 24. Found guilty of manslaughter on one of four counts, the Indian herbalist, Abraham Wally Mahomed Salaman, was to-day sentenced to twelve months’ hard labour by the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers. The jury took two hours forty minutes to reach its decision. The charge on which Salaman was found guilty was that on August 2 at New Plymouth, he hastened the death of Lyall Gordon Christie, aged six, and thereby committed manslaughter by omitting, without lawful excuse, to perform a legal duty assumed by him in respect of Christie, in that in attending to and prescribing for him, he failed to use reasonable care. In reply to Mr O’Leary’s plea for lenience, the Judge said: “I cannot lose sight of the fact that this is a plain case of charlatanism. In giving judgment in a .similar case in the Court of Appeal in England, the Judge said that such quacks as the prisoner should not be allowed to go unpunished. With that opinion I cordially agree.” A recommendation to mercy was endorsed on the indictment by the jury, but was not mentioned aloud in Court.