AN OBSCENE PAPER.
(Per Press Association,.) ' Auckland, last night. James Began, proprietor of the weokly paper Saturday Night, was tried to-dayion a charge of selling an indecent, immoral and obsceno publication in the Saturday Night of •3jjjto,ary 14. BegairvTxplained that he was away at Botorua at the tim3 the issue was published, and denied selling the paper to the boy (who gave evidence) employed by Detective McMahon to buy papers. Counsel for tbo defence argued that the article in question was intendod to teach a m After a retirement of half-an-hour the jury returnod a verdict of guilty. His Honor said ho could not iDflict a fine and ho remanded prisoner foe the probation officer’s report.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1470, 2 June 1905, Page 3
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116AN OBSCENE PAPER. Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1470, 2 June 1905, Page 3
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