AN INDECENT DOCUMENT.
A STIFF PENALTY IMPOSED,
A young married man named William Samuel Beehre, pleaded guilty at the Wellington S.M. Court yesterday, to a charge of knowingly delivering an indecent document. Inspector Marsack, in outlining the facts of the ease, said that Beehre and his wife and child had rented a room in Jessie Street, but on the date on which the offence took place Mrs Beehre and the child were in Wanganui and Beehre was alone in the house with the fourteen-year-old daughter of his landlady. Accused went into the kitchen and handed the girl a note (produced), which he told her to redd, but to show to no one else.
Mr M’Carthy said that such a deliberate attempt to corrupt: a young girl should only be met by a term of imprisonment, and sentenced accused to three months’ imprisonment, the maximum penalty. No doubt the proper authorities would make provision"''for accused’s family.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1795, 28 February 1918, Page 3
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155AN INDECENT DOCUMENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1795, 28 February 1918, Page 3
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