THE "PENNY DREADFUL."
A boy under sixteen years came before Mr Justice Cooper at the Wei lington Supreme Court yesterday for sentence on a charge of breaking and entering. Counsel pleaded that the crimes were due to the lad's mind being saturated with penny dreadful novels. Commenting on the case, His Honor said: "In spite of criticism, I say booksellers who, for the sake of making a few shillings, sell these penny dreadful publications, have a responsibility which they do not appreciate." He added that men who sold such pestilential literature were just as guilty of committing offences against the peace and credit of the community as the man who sold poison.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3050, 21 November 1908, Page 4
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112THE "PENNY DREADFUL." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3050, 21 November 1908, Page 4
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