TRIAL OF REV T. TAYLOR
ALL CHARGES DISMISSED. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 20. In tne Magistrate’s Court to-day, Mr K. Page, S.M. dismissed all of the eleven charges of indecent assault oil males against the Rev. Thomas Ficlden Taylor. The case commenced yesterday. ■ Tlie evidence of the boys called today was similar to that given by the boys yesterday. The detectives’ evidence was that when taxed with the allegations, the accused gave an unqualified denial of them, he said that aIL that he had done was to conduct examinations of the hoys for their own good. He stated he also gave them instructions in sexual matters. Without (calling on counsel, 1 the Magistrate, Air Page, dismissed the charges. The Magistrate stated that no Jury would convict. The boy witnesses, on their own admissions, were thoroughly unreliable. t
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 July 1928, Page 2
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