WOMAN MAKES SERIOUS CHARGE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 75, 31 March 1915, Page 6

WOMAN MAKES SERIOUS CHARGE.

Mejbourne, March, 21

A young woman,who was travelling from Ballarat to Melbourne via Geelong in one of the railway men's picnic trains on Saturday evening, attracted the attention of a guard just before Lethbridge was reached. He caused the train to be pulled up, vixen the woman, who gave her name as. Violet Smale, complained that she bad been criminally assaulted by hve of j seven young men who occKipieu' the same compartment, While the train was running between Meredith nndj Lethbridge. The womfifi 4 Whf (placed in another compartment in charge cf another woman, and the men' cbm- j plained against were locked ih a com-, partment. The police met the train ut Geblong and the ypuhg .men were arfesH'd' on a nominal charge.of offensive behaviour. i The woman, after examination by a doctor, was allowed to continue her journey to Melbourne. Subsequently a capital charge was entered against each of the men who had occupied the compartment with the wo nan.