UNFIT TO BE AT LARGE.
Gisborne, Sept. 29,
At the Supreme Court, the trial of Joseph Crook was concluded. Accused was charged with carnal knowledge and indecent assault on a girl six years of age. The jury, by the judge’s permission, altered Die Jirsl charge to attempted carnal knowledge. The prisoner was then found guilty on both charges. Mr Justice Chapman, in sentencing the prisoner to seven years hard labour on each charge, said that in the course of his career he had never dealt with a case with circumstances so atrocious and horrible as disclosed in the evidence. Prisoner ■was a man absolutely unlit to be at large among human beings.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2032, 23 September 1919, Page 3
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112UNFIT TO BE AT LARGE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2032, 23 September 1919, Page 3
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