“DECAMERON”
COUNSEL DENIES INDECENCY MAGISTRATE RESERVES DECISION (By Telegraph—Press Association) AUCKLAND, Tuesday Decision was reserved to-day by Mr F. H. Levien. S.M.. in the case wherein Howard Keddell Sumter, a principal of the London Book Club, was charged in the Magistrate's Court that he hiied an indecent document to a plain clothes constable. The hearing began last Friday, defendant pleading not guilty. Defending counsel admitted that the book, “Boccassio’s “Decameron’' was one of hundreds of books on the shelves of the lending library and it was not denied that the constable had selected the book for hiring. Counsel contended to-day that, re- ' garded as a whole, the book was not j indecent. ________
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20743, 1 March 1939, Page 5
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112“DECAMERON” Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20743, 1 March 1939, Page 5
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