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HEAVY SENTENCE ON A SEXUAL ■ / DEGENERATE. , ' dy -'AMOclatlon. Gisborne, September 22. * A't thp Supreme Court the trial of Josepli Crook was 'concluded. The accused was charged with carnal knowledge and indecent assault on a girl six years of age. The jury, by the Judge's permission, altered the first chnvgo to attempted carnal knowledge. The prisoner was then found guilty on both charges. Mr. justice Chapman, in the prisoner -to seven years' h.yd labou,r on encli charge (cumulative) said that m tno course ot his career lie had. never dealt with a case in which the circumstances wpro fi. atvoc'ous and horrible a= had been disclosed in the evidence before him. The prisoner was a man absolutely unfit to be at lai'ge anion? human bcUBS, '
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 306, 22 September 1919, Page 4
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128UNFIT FOR HUMAN SOCIETY Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 306, 22 September 1919, Page 4
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