OBSCENE LANGUAGE ON TELEPHONE
(P.A. WELLINGTON. February 19. In the Magistrate’s Court to-day Mr A. A. McLachlan, S.M., sentenced Keith Arthur Short, a radio technician, aged 28, to one month’s imprisonment for using obscene language over the telephone to women on November 15, 1948, and yesterday. The police stated that the accused rang up a woman yesterday and used the languauge complained of. The girl made an appointment with Short and when he arrived the police were waiting to take him into custody. Short admitted that he had telephoned the same girl last November and used obscene language.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25735, 22 February 1949, Page 7
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