CONFESSION DENIED.
New Plymouth, Last Night
The unusual position of an accused person repudiating in its entirely a signed confession made to the police, cropped up in the Supreme Court to-day, when David George Stella, aged twenty, was found guilty of having assaulted a married woman on a country road near Kaponga, and acquitted mi a charge of indecent assault. The principal witness for the Crown said accused caught her by the throat and there was a struggle till someone came on the scene when accused ran away. At the police station, accused made a statement admitting lie had assaulted the woman. In the Supreme Court to-day accused denied making the statement, and repudiated the signature to it. Sentence was postponed. After a retirement of four hours, the jury found Stanley George Harwood guilty on two charges of indecent. acts, and he was remanded for sentence.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2887, 23 May 1925, Page 3
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146CONFESSION DENIED. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2887, 23 May 1925, Page 3
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