Tattered Cloak
IT is a question as to whether the shawl of suppression which hangs ready at hand m our courtrooms for the bench, m its discretion, to shield a name' or smother evidence, is worthy of iis hook. For, instance, m prohibiting the publication of details m connection with a man njeading guilty to indecently assaulting a girl of tender years, might not a magis-< trate be depriving parents of information which, serving as an exemplary warning, would put them on their guard against the many unsuspected corruptions' shadowing the steps of innocent childhood? , Is the; community the better for the puritanical principles of a law which obscures all biit the butfer edges of such 'crimes? :
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NZ Truth, Issue 1194, 18 October 1928, Page 3
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117Tattered Cloak NZ Truth, Issue 1194, 18 October 1928, Page 3
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