MAXIMUM PENALTY
A SHOCKING CASE. A married man named "William Samuel Beehre was charged in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. S. E. M'Carthy, S.M., with writing au indecent note to a girl aged fourteen years. The accused, who was rer.iesented by Mr. A. J. Luke, pleaded guilty. According to the statement of Inspector Marsack, Beehre had a room in tho house of the girl's parents, and while the latter were out tliu child the document, telling her to read it, and not to show it to anyone. The girl, however, let her mother see it, and when taxed with the offonce the accused cleared out of the house, aud he was eventually ariested at Wangamvi. Mr. Luke, in pleading for leniency, reforred to the fact that tho man had a family to support, and it would fall very hard upon them if he were sent to gaol. Mr. Luke suggested that drink was the cause of the man's bolmviour.
His Worship said that the note was in a firm hand, and was not written by a drunken man. Unfortunately,, the penalty he was about to impqso would fall to some extent on the wife and children, yet ho had no doubt that tiie authorities in Wanganui would see that the family wero provided for. Continuing, the Magistrate said: "This is a deliberate attempt on tho part of n_ married man to corrupt a young girl. It is a shocking case, and I will impose the maximum penalty." Boehre was sentenced to threo months , imprisonment.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 138, 28 February 1918, Page 5
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255MAXIMUM PENALTY Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 138, 28 February 1918, Page 5
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