CRIME IN THE CITY.
WELLINGTON, Last Night, The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court- opened this morning. Judge Chapman, in charging the Grand Jury, >sa\d that though the greater number of cases were of the most ordinary kind, there were some of a serious nature, and one or two of an exceptionally shocking kind. He was sorry 'to sec session after session the same feature in a very miarked degree, and i.n a more marked degree than in seme of the Southern provinces, of cases- of sexual crime. The- severe sentences passed did not seem to reduce the iimimiber of cases. There had been too many such cases, and there must be -a very unhealthy state of affairs, morally speaking.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 1034, 15 August 1911, Page 5
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120CRIME IN THE CITY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 1034, 15 August 1911, Page 5
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