CASE OF ABDUCTION
YOUNG MAN SENT TO GAOL
(By Telegraph —I'ress Assocmliou.)
HAMILTON, January 24.
Discovered after living for eighteen months as man and wife with his former employer's daughter, Raymond Jack Vernon Elliott, aged 26, motor mechanic, Hamilton, was charged with abduction before Mr. S. L. Patersop, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court this afternoon and sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour.
As a result of her association with Elliott, the daughter became pregnant and left home with the accused to avoid trouble from her parents. She was 15i years of age. The child was born in March, 1936, when the pair were living as man and wife at Waihi. Elliott said he desired to marry her following a divorce from his present wife, from whom he is separated. "It is a serious offence to take a young girl without the authority of her parents. It is in your favour, that you did not abandon her, but chose to maintain her. For that reason the sentence is lighter than it would otherwise be," said Mr. Paterson.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 20, 25 January 1938, Page 6
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