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<«U«TKALIAN IXII N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. ROBBERS ARRESTED. BAGHDAD, Alarch 25. The robbers who attacked a motor convoy (cabled of on lf)th Alarch) wero arrested two hundred miles from the scene of the outrage. SEX LECTURER DEPORTED. LONDON, March 21. Homer Tyrrell Lane, an American who was a lecturer to the Australian Expeditionary Force, was ordered to he deported. liv a Row Street Magistrate, for offences under the Aliens Act. The evidence showed that Lane lived in sumptuous rooms in Gordon Square, and gave private lectures to men and women on psycho-analysis which were of ;i sexual nature, charging two guineas per hour. His income was £2500 vearlv.
The prosecution described Lane as a charlatan and a danger to society. He established a “Children’s Self-Govern-ing Commonwealth” in Dorsetshire in 19P3, which was closed in 1918, the police alleging that Lima had indecently assaulted the girl inmates. There was also evidence that a woman nalient gave Lane Clu22. On tho other hand, the Bishop of Liverpool. Lite Headmaster ol* Rugb\, gave evidence that the treatment of lame was extremely hehitul in the spiritual growth of youths. Lady Hetty Belfour and other well known people gave similar evidence. Lady Betty said that it, was national calamity that the Commonwealth closed down.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 March 1925, Page 2
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