SIXTY DAYS IN GAOL.
BLASPHEMOUS PUBLISHER'S PUNISHMENT. iJy Cable —Press. Association —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. OTTAWA, March 16. At Toronto, Judge Coatesworth sentenced Sterry to sixty days’ gaol, followed by deportation to England. A cablegram received yesterday said:—At Toronto, Ernest V. Sterry, charged with publishing in a pamphlet known as “The Christian Inquirer,” a ••scandalous, impious, blasphemous, profane and indecent libel of and concerning God, the Holy Bible, the body of tho Scriptures and the Chr.stian religion,” was found guilty by the jury to-day.
This is the first case of the kind in Canada.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 18 March 1927, Page 4
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96SIXTY DAYS IN GAOL. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 18 March 1927, Page 4
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