JOHN JOHNSON GAOLED.

NZ Truth, Issue 103, 8 June 1907, Page 6

JOHN JOHNSON GAOLED.

Oh His Indecent Indictments.

Gets a Fiver.

'John Johnson, ;dt will be rememberer, was before the Police Court on charges of exhibiting .indecent pictures to females. When he came before the Supreme Court last week, this long slab of lustful intent gurgled "Guilty" to ifche four indictments on which tie was arraigned, covering eleven offences. He -gave his age as 31. Alf.. Hanlon told the Court that lie had been 'asked by the mater of the affair , m -the dock to point ,out that the young fellow who had done these damnable deeds .had. been una'olc to set . work m Dunedin (he was an engineer), and bad to go to Wellm-aton. Therein lay his downfall. It was there he fell dnto the bad practices, which had found a cruel climax m the present extraordinary exhibitions. - J. F. M. Eraser, Crown Prosecutor, remarked . that when the suggestion was made that the man was insane he had got three medical experts to examine this booby's 'brainbox. In January. February, and March Fraser gave: the doctor's decisidn : The man could not be certified to as being insane. . J. F. M. continued that the prisoner was 'A SEXUAL FETISHIST, . and as soon as his tether was untied he would be pursuing his, corrupt course again with all ,the vile vehemence of the past. Dr. Coushtrey sot himself into the Witness fcox, and averred that Johnson was on the borderland of insanity. The doctor* however, could not declare Mm insane, "to allow, of Ms beinp; sent to an asylum. His Honor Mr. justice Williams, taking the man to he sane, passed a sentence of fifteen months on each of "the" four indictments, - making: <t>lve total gift five years. The Judge added, that if the man "was really insane" he would be deposited ,m an institution for such beings. . Applying a little common Sense, and nothing more, to this remarkable case, the outsider at once comes to the conclusion that this ffent was a'osohttely stark-staring dotty, for who m his sound mind would do what IMs poor fellow lias beftn doing, for months past ? There was no satisfaction m doing as he did. , No mention of rape or similar acts . of : abandon were mentioned. A reasonable suggestion migM be that he got 'hold of these two filthy pictures, and ihinMna; them prime, deemed" it advisable to show them jto every married woman and Muslim m« sirl he could confront. .Was that the act of a sane man ?