A SALUTARY SENTENCE.
■ > Mrs Drake Senteooed *6 Six Yestrs.
The (Jlud^e's Comments.
{Per Up.ite.jj;. jE*r«ss Assppiation.)
WELIiIKQTQN, December 9. Mrs Drake, 'jound'guilty at the .previous criminal sessions of "th ( e manslaughter her child Dorothy, wafe td-day sentenced by Judges lidwards to six yejw& Evidence tgtfts cajatd g:d to her charucVe^j and coun,sfil. pleaded , 'for a light se'ntanee/pn the groundAthat death, was cauapduiw «n J out- ' nursj <?t 1 1. -passion r and nbt^. : bpcause ot malioe.. " Jv : Judge Edwards, in • sentencing Mrs Drake^^d. slje' W, shown mqst mhumpp conduct- to her little' daughter of sevieA. •Death hwa&ifcKb -result of- repeated j -blows . The prisoner's conduct had been such as one woujd not trpm 'any woman ' to any child. The prisoner's position in life might mate her puni^bsment heavier' than it would be to a woman in a lower station of life, b'ltt-fae could" not btit cons^ddr .that therfe' niust b.e one law for both rich and poor. v The prisoner wept bitteily while being sentenced.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10819, 9 December 1902, Page 6
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165A SALUTARY SENTENCE. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10819, 9 December 1902, Page 6
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