SUPREME COURT.
UNFIT TO BE AT LARGE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Gisborne, Last Night. At the Supreme Court, the trial of Joseph Crook was concluded. Accused was charged with carnal knowledge and indecent assault on a girl of six years of age. The jury, by the Judge's permission, altered the first charge- to attempted carnal knowledge, and prisoner was then found guilty on bath charges. Justice Chapman, in sentencing prisoner to seven years' hard labor on each charge, cumulative, said that in the course of his career he had never dealt with a case in which the circumstances were so atrocious and horrible as disclosed by the evidence. Prisoner was a man absolutely unfit to be at large among human beings.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 September 1919, Page 5
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120SUPREME COURT. Taranaki Daily News, 22 September 1919, Page 5
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