SUPREME COURT.
Auckland, Aug. 8.
In the Supreme Court, Robert Allan Caton was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment and ordered a flogging of ton strokes on seven charges of indecent assaults on males, Mr Justice Stringer stating that ho could not conceive of a case presenting worse features. It was quite impossible to foresee the injuries that might have been done by his filthy practices on the mental and physical health of the victims.
Reginald Benjamin and Trevor Leonard Richard Cunningham appeared for sentence for conspiring to defraud country visitors of £2O. The former was placed on probation for three years, ordered to make restitution and prohibited from visiting races. Cunningham, with a previous conviction in Australia was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment. Angus Taylor, aged 21, for indecent assault, was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 199, 8 August 1923, Page 6
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