“A BAD CITIZEN”
PRISONER’S BLACK RECORD (Per United Press Association). WELLINGTON, May 9. Arthur Henry Woods was found guilty at the Supreme Court this morning of ' indecently assaulting two little girls. The jury recommended that prisoner be mentally examined. “I don’t wonder at the recommendation,” said Sir Robert Stout. “Prisoner has been a bad citizen all his life. He has been convicted of theft, break ing and entering, and served three sentences for indecent assaults of a more serious nature than the present. He has spent nineteen years in gaol for indecent . assaults apart from sentences for other | offences.” Accused was remanded for sentence.
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Southland Times, Issue 18937, 10 May 1923, Page 6
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