MAN’S INFATUATION

Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1931, Page 5

MAN’S INFATUATION

ATTENTIONS TO 16-YEAR GIRL.

RESENTED BY PARENTS.

WELLINGTON, August 7

Said by Sub-Inspector Lopdell to be infatuated with a girl of 16, Arthur John Stratton, a tanner, aged 36, pleaded guilty in the Police Court yesterday to a charge of behaving in a disorderly manner in Taranaki Street. He was convicted and ordered to enter into a bond of £SO, with a surety of £SO, to be of goo<d behaviour towards the girl. The sub-inspector, told Mr E. Page, 5.M.,, that the charge of disorderly conduct referred only to Stratton’s associations or attempted attentions to the girl. The parents resented those attentions, and the father, who lived at Lower Hutt, had approached the police in order to see that she was protected on the way, from her .work to the train. . ! - Stratton was apparently infatuated with, hoy, and the police were afraid thufc he might eomimiu his attentions, The sub-inspectin' suggested that he might he bound over tft keep the peace with respect to the girl. Stratton was a man against whom the police had nothing previously. ' He lived on a farm. The Magistrate (to Stratton): What are you doing down here molesting tlie girl in this way? Stratton; l have not molested her. You are a single man?—“Yes.” , Do you own the farm ? “Well, I haven’t got in it my name. It is freehold. It belongs to my father.” The magistrate, in ordering him to be of- good behaviour towards the girl, told Stratton that he must understand that he was not to speak to her or interfere with her or waylay her in any way.