DESECRATION OF A CHURCH
ECHO OF AN ASHBURTON SCANDAL PROTEST AGAINST CONVICTION DISMISSED By Telegraph—Press Association. Ashburton, December 1. “-Some time ago three local residents were convictfed of being rogues and vagabonds as a result of what the evidence indicated, was a drunken scene by night in the Baptist Church. Subseoucntlv one secured a rehearing and was acouitted on the ground that he wpnt there to look after a friend. Today the second man. Peter Georgfe Gcurdie. secured. rehearing on the ground that though sober when he pleaded guilty at Court next day, He was suffering from the liquor of the . nrenou, evening, and was not pro- . nerlv fit. to defend himself. A rehearing was granted, and proceeded with, The Justices on the bench finally dismissing the case. and stating that Gourdie’s behaviour had been reprehensible, but theife was no evidence that he was in the church for a criminal ournose
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 58, 3 December 1923, Page 8
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