DOMINION TELEGRAMS.
A SHOCKING CASE By Telegraph.—Press Association Dunedin, Yesterday. Ernest Sylvester Phillip Ebzeny pleaded guilty this morning to a charge of 'keeping a house of ill fame. Chief Detective Bishop said the evidence gathered revealed shocking facts, proving that not only was accused a brothel keeper of the worst type, but tvas a procurer of girls, one being a mere girl of seventeen and another a soldier's wife, whose husband was now fighting in France. With the exception of two, all the girls at the house were in respectable situations. The magistrate said accused was liable to 12 months' imprisonment, but under the Military Service Act a man who served that term ceased to become a reservist. Accused would, therefore, be sentenced to eleven months' imprisonment with hard labor, the magistrate considering that the suggestion that a fine would be sufficient was out of the question.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1917, Page 4
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147DOMINION TELEGRAMS. Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1917, Page 4
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