ABDUCTION CHARGE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20077, 25 October 1939, Page 4

ABDUCTION CHARGE

MOTHER IN COURT A FURTHER REMAND (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. A further remand was yesterday granted in trie case of a Melbourne woman who was arrested on the arrival of the Monterey from Sydney on October 16. The accused, whose name the magistrate ordered should not be published, was arrested on a provisional warrant dated at Melbourne on October 12, charging her with unlawfully taking an unmarried girl under 16 years out of the possession and against the will of her parent and guardian and the person having lawful care and charge of her.

She appeared before Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., in the Police Court the same afternoon, when the police, in obtaining a remand until yesterday, stated that her husband, who laid the information again her, intended leaving for Auckland and might be here by yesterday. The police also stated at the time that the accused was living apart from her husband, who was a prominent citizen of Melbourne, and that she left Sydney in the Monterey with her daughter, having booked passages for San Francisco. The accused was remanded until yesterday on bail of £2OO, conditional upon her passports and letter of credit remaining in the possession of the police. Her daughter, meanwhile, remains as a guest in the home of Mr. H. P. Richmond, counsel for the accused’s husband. When the case was called yesterday morning, Detective-Sergeant McHugh asked for a further remand until October 31.

Mr. A. H. Johnstone, who appeared for the accused, suggested the remand should be until October 27. Mr. Johnstone said there seemed to be little reason why the amount fixed as bail should be as high as it was. Mr. Orr Walker remanded the case until Friday on the same terms as before.