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NZ Truth, Issue 128, 30 November 1907, Page 5

William Thomas Raymond, charged with criminally knowing a girl of fourteen at Wellington, slipped the Crown Prosecutor up by pleading guilty, and as his case was disposed of m a few minutes, the principals m the next case were not available when called upon. The Crown had expected a lengthy defence. There was deliberate brutishness about Raymond's crime. He not only entered the home of a friend and seduced his immature daughter, but he communicated to her a loathsome' disease. Raymond, when called upon, .said he had nothins; to say, and Judpe Cooper said that m the circumstap'*es, it was a fair defence. The depositions showed that accused had ta l 'en advantage of the daughter of his friend, and had also overcome her reluctance to commit the act, and had ffiven her a foul disuse, ruining her health, nnrt <uo> aUv her life. A sent proe of three years' imprisonment was imposed-