His Own Grand-daughter

NZ Truth, Issue 1206, 10 January 1929, Page 5

His Own Grand- daughter

(Frbni "N.Z. Truth's" Special Dunedin Representative). "TTis a'grbss case of interference with a child of tender years," said Magistrate Bartholomew at the Dunedin Police Court, m refusing bail to William Henry Hoskins, aged 67, who was committed to the Supreme Court- for sentence on a serious charge involving his own grand-daughter, to which he pleaded guilty. Evidence given by the child's mother was to the effect that Hoskins, who was a resident of Carey's Bay, was alone with the child m his whare, and after giving her a ball and a box of chocolates committed the offence.

Two and a-half years ago, said the mother, the little girl had complained of similar treatment by her grandfather, and she was warned to keep away f r.om his dwelling place. Constable Paul, who interviewed accused, handed m a statement i| which Hoskins/denied haying interfered with the girl, and stating; tha^he had-taken about six long beers prior to- the alleged V :; - '