HOUSE OF ILL-FAME.
RAIDED BY THE POLICE. Auckland, Last Night. Under the War Regulations Act the police last night ma.de a raid on what is known as the “shilling at night” lodging house, in Federal Street, and arrested sixteen men and two women occupants. This morning Purvis Graham, aged (iff years, on a charge of keeping a house of ill-fame, was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment; Margaret Lange, a resident in the house, was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment; and Agnes Bathurst, another resident, to six months’ imprisonment. Four others were sentenced to one month’s imprisonment. One man, on a charge of vagrancy, was sentenced to six moldhs" imprisonment.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1632, 2 November 1916, Page 3
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109HOUSE OF ILL-FAME. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1632, 2 November 1916, Page 3
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