JURY DISAGREES AGAIN
Charge Against Boyle THIRD TRIAL APPLIED FOR Another disagreement was the result of four bours' consideration by the jury at t !/j second trial before Mr Justice Ostler in the Supreme Gourt at Napier yesterday afternoon of the charge against Harold Douglas Boyle, of Hastings, ex-holder of the amateur ban-tam-weight boxing title. He pleaded not guiltv to a charge of indecently assaulting a girl with intent to commit l'apie. A formal appiication for a third trial next session at Napier was granted Mr H. B. Lusk, Crown Prosecutor, who mtimated that meanwhile he would communicate with the Soli-citor-General. Tho Crown alleged that Boyle, while taking the girl home from the Peerless Milk Bar, Heretaunga street, Hastings, one night last November, dragged her behind the hoardings in the Hastings railway station property and was ther© assaulting her when ' a man intervened after hearing the girl s cries for heJp. For the defence, Mr W. Selwyn Averill urged'that the girl had accompanied Bo3'le behind the hoardings willingly, and that he had not tricd to take advantage of her at all.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 24, 12 February 1937, Page 6
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