THREE MONTHS’ JAIL
Writer Of Indecent Letter Dominion Special Service. Palmerston North, April 4. James Newberry, labourer, aged 54, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour by Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrates' Court, Palmerston, North, this morning after pleading guilty to a charge of sending an indecent document through the Post Office. Another charge of posting an indecent article was withdrawn. Detective-Sergeant A. B. Meiklejohn prosecuted and said that Newberry wrote a letter to a respectable young woman in Palmerston North, and signed it with another name, suggesting arrangements for an appointment A solicitor and the police were consulted by the woman and a reply was drafted and sent. Later Newberry wrote another letter and both parties kept the appointment. Detective Compton was nearby, however, and when the woman was approached Newberry was detained. The detective-sergeant said that Newberry had a long list of previous convictions, dating from 1899. “It is a disgusting and revolting letter. There is no excuse or any extenuating circumstance," said the magistrate.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 162, 5 April 1938, Page 17
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172THREE MONTHS’ JAIL Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 162, 5 April 1938, Page 17
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