FOURTEEN YEARS IN GAOL.
SERIOUS CRIMES PUNISHED.
"UNFIT TO BE AT LARGE."
[BY telegraph.— association.]
GISBORNE. Saturday. At the Supreme Court to-day the trial of Joseph Crook was concluded. The accused was charged with carnal knowledge and indecent assault on a girl six years of age.
The jury, by the Judge's permission, altered the first charge to attempted carnal knowledge. The prisoner was then found guilty on both charges. Mr. Justice Chapman, in sentencing the prisoner to seven years' hard labour on each charge the sentences to be cumulative said that in the course of his career he had never dealt} with a case the cir curnstances of which were so atrocious and horrible as disclosed by the evidence the prisoner was a man absolutely unfit to be at large among human beings.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19190922.2.35
Bibliographic details
New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17271, 22 September 1919, Page 6
Word Count
133FOURTEEN YEARS IN GAOL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17271, 22 September 1919, Page 6
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the New Zealand Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence . This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Auckland Libraries and NZME.
Log in