SUPREME COURT.
AUCKLAND SESSIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Saturday. iln the Supreme. Court Mr. Justice Edwards sentenced Harold Jermy Weston to twelve months' imprisonment for an indecent assault on a child at Gisborne. Horrible details were disclosed in a charge against Charles William Robinson, a native school teacher and ordained clergyman, aged about 35, who pleaded guilty to sixteen charges of indecently ' assaulting Maori boys. The judge saidj these crimes extended over a period 'of six years. It was his duty to see prisoner | was not allowed at large again without the sanction of those whose duty it was : to say whether such a criminal should be' at large during his lifetime. He im-:: posed a sentence of ten years on each ; charge concurrently, and declared acy cused an habitual criminal. I,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 121, 13 November 1911, Page 8
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132SUPREME COURT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 121, 13 November 1911, Page 8
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