SCHOOL-TEACHER IN TROUBLE
EIGHTEEN MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT. [by telegraph.— association.] Invercargill, Tuesday. In the Supreme Court to-day John McFadden, school-teacher, was charged with a false declaration to the registrar with regard to the age of a girl of whose illegitimate child he was the father, and was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment. His Honor stated that he had to look at all the circumstances, and not simply at the offence with which the man was charged. . ; The prisoner, who pleaded guilty, was a school-teacher on the West Coast,,and the girl one of his pupils, and the false declaration was made at Wyndham, to which place both parties removed. .;,;;■.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13456, 5 June 1907, Page 7
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