UNFIT FOR LIBERTY.
PRISONER BENEATH THE PALE
OF HUMANITY
[per press association.l AUCKLAND, Dec. 13. At the Supreme Court J udge Edwards sentenced William Thomas Edmiston, for indecent assault on a child at Rotorua, to seven years’ hard labor and ten years’ reformative treatment. The crime was a particularly serious one. the judge remarking prisoner was unfit to be at large. He was beneath the pale of humanity. No creature that walked the earth needed reformative treatment more.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3399, 14 December 1911, Page 5
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78UNFIT FOR LIBERTY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3399, 14 December 1911, Page 5
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