SHOCKING CASES.
A SGANDALOUS AGREEMENT.
[(Per Plesa Association.};
: Invercargill, last night. At the Supreme Court on Saturday Edward Morrah, a single man, aged about 45, was charged With carnal knowledge of a girl 15£ years of age. The jury could | not agree, and wore discharged. A new | Wal is to be taken on The evL denoe disclosed that the girl, who comes from the vicinity of Dunedin, had been wandering in Southland for weeks, cohabiting with men in huts, It is alleged that two young fellows took her to Morrah’B house in town, and that she remained with him till the polioe got wind of the condition of things. In the case G. Smith v. W. McKenzie, olaim £3OO for seduction of the plaintiff’s daughter, the parties agreed to a vardiot for £25 and costs. Tho girl was only 14 years of age when seduced, and gave birth to a child in February last.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1549, 4 September 1905, Page 2
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