An Infamous Villian.
■ A man named Sydney Knight, of Dunedin, has been fined £5 for cruelly bcatiug his wife. Ho was also bound over to keep the peace, aud finding no sureties was sent to gaol for six months. It came cut in evidence that Sydney Knight battered aud bruised his unhappy wife because she would not go out to the streets as a prostitute and earn money for him, by leading k sa immoral life, It is
j niucii to bo tint such a wretch go i ’’‘fiiaioas as this could not be whipped at die • ~ts. tail by the common bailsman. In truth. ■ > im] Jo s0 dead to every manly instinct ' a d .-,ot be permitted to 'live. It Sydney . bt could betaken to gome retired spot and there hanged by the neck to the branch of a tree until he was dead, it would be a good thing for society at large.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1796, 17 February 1886, Page 2
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155An Infamous Villian. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1796, 17 February 1886, Page 2
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