PETONE PORNIG PRACTICES

NZ Truth, Issue 83, 19 January 1907, Page 5

PETONE PORNIG PRACTICES

HILL'S HORRIBLE CRIME.

Shamefully Inadequate Sentence. Sympathetic Parson and Justices. The usefulness of this paper has seldom been so manifest' as m giving the necessary publicity to a grave scandal at Petone, which the daily press of Wellington and the local journal of Petone have, by a cruel conspiracy of s/lence, wilfully withheld from public knowledge. When it is said that this scandal constitutes a grave miscarriage of justice m which three Justices of the Peace, a long-snouted parson and a filthy, foul fiend of an indecent exhibitionist were the chief actors its seriousness will be at once apparent to all and sundry. It is a too notorious fact that m Wellington and such places as Petone it is

POSITIVELY DANGEROUS for female children to wander away from home, for they are always liable to the risk of being grossly insulted or molested by hum an" brutes who seem to derive peculiar pleasure from acts of vile indecency. These fiends give more trouble to the police than any other criminal because they .cunniaigly contrive and generally succeed m their disgusting practices where there are no male or even female adults about to thrash them within an inch of their dirty lives or to capture them and hand th?m over to a police officer. Fortunately for the sake of the children of Petone one of t

THESE HUMAN SKUNKS has been caged, though it is told with regret that the dirty brute m question only received one-twelfth of the deserts due to him. It happens, moreover, -that' the animal m r;uestion is one Strom-!- imbued with religious principles, being a Wesleyan, ami a prominent piliar.'of that cruel Christian creed. His name is J. Kill, an'tl— breathe it ever so gently —he is, or was, and doubtless, when he comes out of ?;ao), will continue to he, the custodian of the Young Mon.'s Club of" P-etcnc, where prayers .are read re-gularlv every evening, and where nothing stronger than lemon, squash is consumed on the promises. Yesterday week Hill was arrested on a nharfse Q- indecency,, ami on , the' following day he was brought before ! Messrs A. Coles, .1. Wnkehani and R. W. Short, J.sP., 'at the Petone Court and charged with Ilv. offence, and. holy, oily i?san. of Cod that Hill is, .he indignantly denied the charge. His offence wes AN ATROCIOUS ONE, consisting of an indecent exhibition to two female children, .whom, dirty beast that he is, lie requested to perform an onuallv filthy 'and repugnant act. IT ill, with all the religious fervor that -ho could co-nmiand, characterised' the -witness-as .againrrfc him as liars ; but the evklcnct; v/as too strong "to admit of. an ae^iltal. Inibimos, religious influence, the worst of 0.11. hoover, had-jrot to work, and for an offence for which he f=hotild have received six if not twelve months' im.prisonmf.nt, the Justices of the Peace- reluctantly sent him to gaol for .a mwth. oinl, what surprises this, paper is thai" the

NODDLES ON THE BENCH did not- emulate the • example set by a bench of Jay Pees m Wellington recently and impose a paltry fine. The ludicrous leniency of the Petone Bench,, however, calls fbr more than ordinary comment. It should have thrown leniency -to the four winds of heaven and majde an example of Hill, the more so because he is what he is, a holy hypocrite" and a pious fraud. If such as he, dirty animal as he was proved to be, is nob to have his shocking sexual sins rigorously punished and proclaimed from the house-tops, what hope is ■ there of preventing children from being contaminated and ruined m mind if not m body ? And because Hill was no doubt induced by Parson Russell's* extraordinary attitude m this horrible case— care fully omitted the slightest reference to the dirty devildodger's doings/ This Parson Russell, was a prominent personage during the Police Court proceedings, and did his level best for

.HIS MISGUIDED RAM by giving him an excellent character and declaring his absolute belief m Hill's innocence. Had the Bench possessed, any ■back-tone it would have told him to mind his own busir ness, as it was. for the Court and not Parson Russell to say whether Hill was innocent or otherwise. Russell carried his game a bit too far ; his attempt, which too well succeeded, of frluXTmg the Magistrates into making asses of themselves by dealing so ridiculously lenient with dealing so ridiculously leniently with the accused toeing audacious. By some means, t.oo, the Press was silenced and closed its columns against any mention of Hill's horrible crime. Anyhow, it has been left to this paper, as it always is, to 'tell the truth about Hill's dirty exhibition and -m future, parents m Petone will do v.«31l to exercise care with their off-spring when it is known that this pillar of the Wesleyan Church is free again to insult and degrade innocent girls. Of course tub-thumper Russell and the Christian Young Men with whom Hill associated, still persevere m .proclaiming; the degenerate 'vS iivn-oc&nce, and m so doing they are braiidir- the witnesses— whose testimony even a partially inclined Bench had to believe— as brazenfaced liars, which is -just, tire kind of Christian r,r.-.t J these Christian Young Men are capable of.