INDECENT ACT ADMITTED
MAN COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Blenheim, Last Night. A young man named Percy John Paterson, aged 23 years, pleaded guilty at the Magistrate’s Court to-day to having committed an indecent act with intent to insult or offend three little girls at Kekerangu. The accused, who left Christchurch a month ago, was stated to be a bootmaker by trade, but lately he had been working as a labourer. He admitted the offence, but said it was unintentional. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Bail was not asked for..
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 June 1927, Page 7
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