A SHOCKING ASSAULT
GIBB STRIPPED AND BLACKENED [Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.! LONDON, May 12. Miss Jean Olds, twenty-two, a pretty assistant at a West End hairdresser told an astounding story when she staggered up to a house at Sittingbourne, at live a.til. ami said she was stripped, and coated with boot polish. She alleged a titled man took her out in a motor car, gave her dinner and a dance at Maidstone. Reaching a lonely wood, lie stopped the car and induced her to alight. <> struggle, he stripped off her clotncs. tied her to a tree, coated her body with black hoot polish and then drove off. It was hours 'lie I ore she lreed herself and staggered in a house where she was given food, a hath ami had her clothes recovered.
The •‘Chronicle" states Sir Gerard Wilshire (Baronet) has been arrested and appears at Maidstone Police Cotut to-morrow. REMANDED. ;Received this dav at 9.30 a.in.) LONDON, May 12. Sir Gerard Wiltshire was charged with indecent assault and was remanded.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1927, Page 2
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171A SHOCKING ASSAULT Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1927, Page 2
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