ALLEGED AWFUL ACT.

NZ Truth, Issue 222, 25 September 1909, Page 6

ALLEGED AWFUL ACT.

Charles Taylor m Trouble,

Charged with an Unnatural Offence.

At the Magistrate's Court on Wednesday .week, before Mr Riddell, S.M., a young man named Charles Taylor was charged with having, on Saturday evening, of September 4, committed an unnatural ofience on a boy 11 years of age. Chief Detective Broberg prosecuted, and Mr P. Jackson appeared for the accused. The case was heard with closed doors. From the story told hy the boy, who seems to be of weak intellect, HE WAS SELLING- PAPERS on the evening m question, and went into the Palace Hotel,' where he met the accused, Accused took tlie boy down Chew's. lane and on a vacant allotment twice committed the offence alleged, the accused each time promising him money, and also threatened to kiil him. A policeman came on the scene and the boy communicated what had happened to the officer and Taylor was arrested. After hsaring the evidence, tbe Magistrate committed Taylor to thc Supreme Court for trial. Bail, self m £100 and two sureties, of £50 each was allowed. The fcirds wings, and thc fish have fins ; but however the Creator came to bestow a pair of legs to walk with, instead of a belly to cra-wn upon, to some of the pimps peregrinating about the city, is a mystery. A young man was charged with forgery m. Christchurch, Chief 'Tec. Bishop mentioning that other informations were pending. He asked for a remand. The accused didn't see why he should have to wait for trial to meet the convenience of tbe police. The Chief "i'ec. then produced the young man's record, which showed that he had . spent seven years m gaol during his short career. Magistrate Haselden v deprecated thc production of the man's record at this stage, and the accused himself said that it was very unfair that his previous record should be brought up before his case was heard. He hadn't even been brought m contact, with persons concerned for identification purposes, and m the case of one charge be hadn't been inside thc hotel mentioned, as thc detective partly knew. Tbe Chief sajd ho had produced the record m support of his application for a remand, which was granted hy his Worship, without comment. Nev- | crtheless, a man shouldn't be prejudged . and thc production of no record is per- | missiblc until a conviction has been, entered up. Even the best of magistrates is subject to unconscious bias.