INDECENT LETTER
ACCUSED SENT TO GAOL. PALMERSTON NORTH, April 4. On a charge of having sent an indecent letter through the post, James Newberry, alias Thomas Jones (54), was sentenced to three months’ hard labour by Mr Stout, S.M. Detective-Sergeant Meiklejohn said that the accused wrote under the name of T. James, care of the Palmerston North Post Office, to a young woman, who communicated with the police and later drafted a reply, and also inserted an advertisement in a newspaper saying that a reply had been posted. Accused replied making an appointment near the woman’s home. The appointment was kept by the woman, but a detective was handy behind a hedge and arrested the accused, who has a long list of previous convictions, including five years for committing bodily harm and three years for wounding with intent to do bodily harm.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1938, Page 10
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142INDECENT LETTER Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1938, Page 10
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