A SHOCKING CASE.
ACCUSED ALLOWED BAIL. (Per Press Association.) Christchurch, last night. William Powers was charged at the Polico Court to-day with that on June lUtu ho did carnally know a girl under ton yC 'rb3°po!ico asked and obtained a remand for ono week. Bail was in the ID " sfcauoa refusod, Sub-Inspector Dwyer stating that tho case was surrounded by circumstauces which mado it by far tho worst caso in the whole of his exporieuco in tho Polico Department. The child was now lying in tho hospital in a very bad state. . .. j Counsel at a laior Btage again applied for boil, pointing out that accused was a married man with a family and in business, and not likely to abscond. Tho bench agreed to allow hail, the accused in £2OO and two sureties of ±IOO eaoh.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1487, 22 June 1905, Page 3
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137A SHOCKING CASE. Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1487, 22 June 1905, Page 3
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