ABDUCTION OF 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL
BUS DRIVERS OFFENCE GAOL PENALTY [Pee United Press Association.] WHAKATANE, September 11. _ Charged with the abduction of a 13-year-old girl, and with escaping from custody, Arthur Mitchell Wray, aged 25, appeared before Mr E. L. Walton, S.M., at Whakatane, to-day, and was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on the first charge and remanded on the second. He pleaded guilty to the charges. The police said that Wray, who was formerly a school bus driver, struck up a friendship with one of the chil-
dren. He sold the business and left the district with the girl, going to Tanpo, where he was arrested. Mr B. S. Barry, for the accused, said that Wray, with the consent of the girl’s family, had been going about with her-for 12 -months. - She suggested to Wray that they should go away together. At Taupo she sot up house in a manner which would have done credit to any woman. “ Abduction is considered a serious offence, and rightly so,” said the Magistrate. “There was no possibility of Wray mistaking the age of the child, as she is only 13.”
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Evening Star, Issue 23679, 12 September 1940, Page 15
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187ABDUCTION OF 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL Evening Star, Issue 23679, 12 September 1940, Page 15
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