UGLY CRIMES
tPer United Press Association.) • AUCKLAND, Nov. 11. In the Supreme Court Mr Justice Edwards sentenced Harold Jeremy Weston to twelve months' imprisonment for indecently assaulting a child at Gisborne. Horrible details were disclosed In a charge against Charles William Robinson, a native schoolteacher and ordained clergyman, aged about 35, who pleaded guilty to sixteen charges of indecently assaulting Maori boys. The Judge said that these crimes extended over a period of six years. It was his duty to sec that prisoner was not allowed at large again without the sanction of those whose duty it was to say whether such a criminal should he at largo during ills lifetime. Ho imposed ,a sentence of ten years’ imprisonment on each charge concurrently, and declared accused an habitual! criminal.
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Southland Times, Issue 16888, 13 November 1911, Page 5
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129UGLY CRIMES Southland Times, Issue 16888, 13 November 1911, Page 5
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