THREE YEARS' IMPRISONMENT
HERBALIST'S GRAVE OFFENCES [Pbh United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, February 12, Three years’ imprisonment, with fines totalling £BO, was the punishment imposed on Joseph Isherwood, a herbalist, by Mr Justice Northcroft m the Supreme Court to-day. Isherwood had been found guilty on two charges ot indecent assault on males and had pleaded guilty to eight charges of telling fortunes. He was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment on each of the assault charges, the sentences to be concurrent, and was fined £lO on each of the fortune-telling charges. “ Fortune telling is classified among the crimes of fraud,” said Mr Justice Northcroft, in passing _ sentence. “ Isherwood has been convicted many times and fined, and it is proper that I should fine him now. * . “The other crimes are abominable, His Honour said, “ and being pursued indiscriminately might have led to wholesale perversion in the commi Henry Percy Rentoul Ramsbottom Isherwood, who had been found guilty on two charges of carnal knowledge, was sentenced to imprisonment for 15 months.
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Evening Star, Issue 22572, 13 February 1937, Page 23
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