THE DUNEDIN ELOPEMENT
ELEVEN MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT IMPOSED ON YOUNG.
Hj Telecriinh-Prcss Association. ' . Dunedin, November 6. ■ In the' Police Court to-day, Henry Young, was charged with taking away a girl under eighteen years of age, ngainst tho .will of her parents, for improper purposes. Accused pleaded guilty. Accused and the girl left their clothes on Ocean Beach with a viow to making people think they had been drowned. Subsequently they worked their way to Auckland under assumed names, whero Young gave himself up to tho police. Accused was sentenced to II months' hard labour. • Counsel for accused suggested that a long sentence would bo to accused's wife, who intended taking maintenance proceedings, but the police snid they understood accused's people in England were well off, and would make jrovision for Mrs. Young during the period of sonience.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19171107.2.53
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 37, 7 November 1917, Page 9
Word count
Tapeke kupu
136THE DUNEDIN ELOPEMENT Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 37, 7 November 1917, Page 9
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in