GIRL'S FIERCE STRUGGLE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 906, 25 February 1930, Page 11

GIRL'S FIERCE STRUGGLE

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SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST WORKER SEQUEL TO COUNTRY DANCE

From Our Own Correspondent HAMILTON, Today

The story of a Rotorua waitress’s Besperate struggle with an assailant was told in the Supreme Court today, when a forestry worker. Lionel Shotr pawes, 21, was charged with attempted rape, and alternatively with indecent assault. At the time of the alleged assault the girl had only been inßotorua a week and in. New Zealand four months. She came from II- T. Gillies, for the Crown, said that on the night of December 14 the girl, with two other girls, went to a dance in the King's Hall. After the dance she was introduced to prisoner at the shop of Hori Mau. She went with Mau and a party for a drive toward Whaka. On their return the girl alighted near Grande Vue, where she was working. Prisoner also got out and the car with the others drove on The girl said she was going inB i,je when Dawes seized her and dragged her to an adjacent plantation and made a violent attack on her. The struggle was so furious that the girl’s dental plate went down her throat. Her screams resulted in an alarm being given, and Constable Hay arrived and found her greatly distressed. Hori Mau, tobacconist, said that alter the dance he invited the girl to tome to the shop and meet a nice V o U ng man. They drove out to \Yhaka and set the girl and prisoner outside the hotel. On the way out the girl kissed accused and placed her arm around his neck. Replying to Mr. E. Roe. for the defence, the girl in evidence denied any familiarity toward the accused. She said she did not like his company and wanted to get home. Constable Hay said that when the s rl was found she was exhausted from the struggle. The jury has retired.