REV. FIELDEN TAYLOR
SERIOUS CHARGES DISMISSED (Pfr Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. In the Magistrate's Court to-day, Mr. E. IVtge, N.M., dismissed all the charges of indecent assault on males against the Rev. Thomas Kieldeii Taylor. The ease commenced on Thursday. The evidence of the boys to-day was similar to that given on Thursday.
i A detective's evidence was that, when taxed with the allegations, accused gave an unqualified denial of them. lie stated that all he had done was to conduct examinations of the hoys for their own good. lie .also gave them instructions in sexual matters.
Without calling on counsel, Mr Page dismissed the charges, stating that no jury would convict, the hoy witnesses on their own admissions being thoroughly unreliable
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16703, 21 July 1928, Page 14
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