OFFENSIVE LETTERS LEFT CLOSE TO GIRLS’ HIGH SCHOOL
(P.A.) DANNEVIRKE, Sept. 3. An unusual case was heard before justices of the peace when Robert Lionel Boyd was charged with offensive behaviour in Napier last May.
The accused had written offensive letters suggesting indecent acts and left them on Brewster steps, near the Napier Girls’ High School. The letters were written as if correspondence was being carried on between high school girls and suggested that they meet the accused at a given place. Police Sergeant Rippin, of Napier, said the accused was a married man aged 34. He had left the letters lying on the steps in the hope that girls might pick them up and meet him. The accused, who pleaded guilty, was fined £5, the maximum penalty under the Act, the bench remarking that in its opinion the penally allowed by the Act was wholly inadequate. An application for the suppression of the name was refused. The accused was also convicted and admitted to probation for 12 months on a charge of false pretences involving a small sum.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23042, 5 September 1949, Page 6
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179OFFENSIVE LETTERS LEFT CLOSE TO GIRLS’ HIGH SCHOOL Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23042, 5 September 1949, Page 6
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