OFFENCE BY CHINESE.
A YEAR'J! IMPRISONMENT* fBY TELEGKAPH.---OWN COJtRESPONDENT. ] HAMILTON, Monday. A young Chinese, Hoy Wing Tung (Mr, Webb), was charged 1 in the Hamilton Supreme Court to-day with attempting to indecently assault a girl under the age of 16 years. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. Mr. Justice Stringer, in imposing a sentenco oi months' imprisonment, said he took into account the fact that the prisoner was a foreigner and that the girl was unusually precocious.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19265, 2 March 1926, Page 12
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78OFFENCE BY CHINESE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19265, 2 March 1926, Page 12
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