CANVASSER SENT TO GAOL.
# (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) NAPIER, October 22. Michael Lipmski, alias Lepinskf, alias Levenski, a canvasser on commission for the Auckland Art Union, was sentenced by Mr A. M. Mowlem, S.M., this morning to one month' 6 imprisonment on a charge of assaulting a little girl. Accused invited two girls, aged 12, into the Botanical Gardens, persuaded them to sit down on the grass, and put his arms around them. Accused asked the girls to meet him again on a future occasion, and said he would have brought fruit and lollies had he known he would meet them. Accused's counsel pleaded that it was merely a technical offence, but the Magistr a t€, remarking that accused had a number of previous convictions, mostly for theft, thought the present case bore a sinister aspect.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19757, 23 October 1929, Page 4
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