PROSECUTION OF A BROTHEL KEEPER.
Wanoanui, This day.
John Jackson, an old man, the owner of several notorious brothels, was prosecuted on Saturday by tho police under the Coloration bye-law relating , to persons having'the control or management of disorderly houses. Mr Ward, R.M., held that, as the occupiers were weekly tenants, and the defendant could get rid of them when he liked, but instead of doing so received the rents and resorted to the premises almost daily, his case came under the bye-law, although he was not the actual occupier of a disorderly house. Ho was fined £5 and costs.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3768, 13 August 1883, Page 3
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100PROSECUTION OF A BROTHEL KEEPER. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3768, 13 August 1883, Page 3
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