INDECENT PICTURE PROSECUTION
(BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Feildlng, October 22. Before, Mr. A. D. Thomson, S.M., to-day, A. C. Morton, a local photographer, was called on to show why a certain photograph exhibited in his studio should not be destroyed as obscene. Tho picture was an enlargement of a photograph of an eight-months'-old boy. The defence put in several of Gustavo Doro's drawings and a quotation from Ruskin on painting tho nude form. Tho magistrate held ho should rely on his own opinion regarding tho picture, and not take evidence. His opinion was clear, and decided that the picture v/as indecent, and had been rightly seizod by warrant. He could not understand the picture being exhibited in the view of young people. Thero was nothing indecent in tho picture of a young child sprawling on tho floor in a natural position, but this picturo was a very different matter. He ordered the picturo to bo destroyed. Defendant intimated that lie would appeal.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 335, 23 October 1908, Page 5
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161INDECENT PICTURE PROSECUTION Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 335, 23 October 1908, Page 5
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