No Peal of Wedding Bells

NZ Truth, Issue 1214, 7 March 1929, Page 8

No Peal of Wedding Bells

| (Prom "N.Z. Truth's" Special Dunedin Representative.) I WHEN Frank Auld, aged 28, came before His Honor, Mr. Jus--1 "" tice MacGregor, at the Invercargill Supreme'Gourt to I receive sentence on a serious charge, to which he had pleaded I. guilty m the lower court, it was stated by hie counsel, Mr. Gor- | don Reed, that the girl— and her father— were both agreeable 1 to marriage with the accused. I On the other hand, said counsel, a church . minister had 1 deprecated the idea. Counsel was aware that the > probation I officer's report was not m favor of a.term of probation, but he 1 would draw his honor's attention to the fact that the girl in--1 volvedj when, she was only 15/2 years of age, had, with another ,1 girl, visited the stables where accused worked, and "made free § with these young fellows." | Auld was sentenced to 18. months' hard labor.