SUPREME COURT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8745, 20 February 1907, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

Press Association. Wellington', February 20. Eupert Bellow convicted of an unnatural offence came up for sentence this morning. Justice Cooper said the case had caused him and the Chief Justice liiuoh anxiety. Prisoner was only fifteen and to send him to gaol would mean absolute destruction to his future welfare, while to send him to a reformatory was undesirable. His Honor spoke at some length on secret vice amongst boys, who were unaware of the full extent of their wrong doing, and urged upon parents the duty of making lads acquainted with those natural laws, the neglect of which in many cases destroyed health, sense and morals. In admitting the prisoner to probation His Honor said he was taking an unusual s tap, but he would impose special conditions. Probation was for a period of six years. Prisoner was to report to the police weekly and not be out after seven at night, and the boy’s father was to pay the costs of the prosecution and to enter into a bond for £2GO.