SUPREME COURT GASES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16546, 22 September 1919, Page 6

SUPREME COURT GASES.

GISBGRNE SESSIONS. Per Press Association. GISBORNE, Sept 21. .... At the'Supreme Court, the* trial of Joseph Crook was concluded. Accused was charged with carnal knowledge and indecent assault on a girl of six years of age. The jury, by the Julges permission, altered the first charge to attempted carnal knowledge, and prisoner was then found guilty on both charges. Mr. Justice Chapman, in sentencing prisoner to seven years’ hard labour on each charge, cumulative, said that in the course of his caroe he had never dealt with a case in which the circumstances were so atrocious and horrible as disclosed by the evidence. Prisoner was a man .absolutely unlit to be at large among human beings. .