SERIOUS CHARGES
BLIND INSTITUTE DIRECTOR BEFORE COURT. HEARING ADJOURNED TILL TUESDAY. By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 13. Sixteen charges of indecent assault on males between December 17, 1933, and March 24, 1938, were preferred against Clutha Nantes Mackenzie, director of the New Zealand Institute for the Blind, in the Magistrate’s Court before Mr C. R. Orr-Walker, S.M. Mr A. H. Johnstone, K.C., with him Mr F. L. G. West, appeared for accused and Detective-Sergeant McHugh prosecuted. Evidence was given by 11 youths and men, all present or former inmates of the institute. Some of the witnesses were totally blind and the remainder had various degrees of defective eyesight. Two were completely deaf and gave their evidence in writing. Mr Johnstone said he intended to submit that there was no case to go to a jury. He desired time in which to go carefully through the evidence. The magistrate: “Some of the charges would not go beyond a grand jury. I will hold that there are also some which it would be of no use to send forward, even if they got past a grand jury.” The hearing was adjourned until Tuesday afternoon.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 May 1938, Page 9
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