KEPT UNDESIRABLE HOUSE

Taranaki Daily News, 27 May 1933, Page 6

KEPT UNDESIRABLE HOUSE

WELLINGTON MAN IMPRISONED. SORDID STORY TOLD COURT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. A case was heard yesterday in which Roy William Spencer, aged 34, was with permitting premises in the cit/rio be used for an undesirable purpose, and with being an idle and disorderly person in that he habitually consorted with reputed prostitutes. The Court was cleared, but an application for the suppression of witnesses’ names was rejected. After evidence had been given the magistrate said that he would give a written judgment. To-day. he delivered this, finding accused guilty on both' charges. The evidence showed, he said, that for period of about a month accused lived with a girl of 19 and during that period habitually promoted her indiscriminate prostitution, chiefly with Chinese, and received and lived on the earnings of her immorality. After leaving her he got a younger sister to go and live with him for some two months up to the time of his arrest. This girl, when called as a witness, provedhostile and repudiated a lengthy and detailed statement she had made regarding her doings while under defendant’s control. The evidence of a Chinese had been heard, however, and there was no doubt that she was also carrying on prostitution.

He sentenced accused to three months’ imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent.