Corpun file 23784

The Mercury, Hobart, Tasmania, 16 December 1889, p.4

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Launceston

(From our own correspondent.)

By Electric Telegraph.

(extracts)

Sunday.

On Saturday, Charles Burr received the second of the two floggings to which he was sentenced six months ago, together with five years imprisonment for a dastardly outrage on a respectable young woman. The caning was slightly more severe than last time, but did not cut the skin.

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