JUDGE AND MAGISTRATES
Mr Justice Rowlatt, at Winchester Assizes, stopped the case against Charles Ernest Pook, aged TB, against whom an 11-year-old girl had made an accusation, and he directed the jury to find Took not guilty. Tho judge said that the lad had been in gaol for four months because a little girl told a story without a rag of corroboration and said nothing about it for three months. It was perfectly shocking that the lad hod toon committed. "Are magistr.v -ifrnid of dismissing charges brought 1 ; tflo girls, lest there should be a hullnhiiloo?"
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12354, 26 January 1926, Page 10
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