PROSECUTION DROPPED
THE MARYVILLE CASE Pre»s Association— By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, December 12. Tho police have dropped too prosecution against Simpson and Webb, the woman concerned having refused to give evidence [A message received from Sydney on October 2-1 read as follows;—A young married woman last night accepted a proffered car ride with half a dozen young men. She told tho police that when tho ear reached scrub land at Maryville, on the way to Botany, she was dragged out of tho car and criminally assaulted by the six men. Her screams attracted the notice of the police, and her assailants decamped. Two men. Jack Simpson, twenty-throe, a bookmaker, and Charles Webb, twenty-two. a farrier, have been arrested on charges of outraging the woman.]
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Evening Star, Issue 20048, 13 December 1928, Page 10
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123PROSECUTION DROPPED Evening Star, Issue 20048, 13 December 1928, Page 10
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