SIX WEEKS’ GAOL
ASSAULT ON GIRL EXHIBITION INCIDENT (P«r Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. For assaulting a small girl at the Centennial Exhibition on Saturday night, Richard Samuel Thomas, aged 55, a blacksmith, was sentenced in the Magistrate’s Court today to six weeks' gaol. The magistrate, Mr. J. H. Luxford, said that such interference with children would not be allowed and anyone who attempted it would be severely punished. Detective-Sergeant McLennan said the defendant was seen at the exhibition with a little girl w’hom he had bailed up in a corner. She was crying and the attention of the police was drawn to the incident by people nearby. The girl had just arrived in Wellington for the exhibition.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20093, 13 November 1939, Page 8
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