Another Criminal Outrage. Six Men Arrested.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 188, 22 January 1887, Page 1

Another Criminal Outrage. Six Men Arrested.

An outrage in some respects similar to that committed on Mary Jane Hicks, at Mount

Ronnie, it ie alleged, was perpetrated on a young girl named .Grace Porters, 17 years of age, in the vicinity of Newtown The girl's statement was to the effect that about half-post eleven on the evening of December 29 she was returning to a house in Cook's River Road, where she was engaged as a domestic servant, from a visit to a friend who lives in Nelson -atreet, ISewtowD. When she got aa far as Colmans 'bus stables on Cook's River Road, whioh etandß by itself in a lonely spot, there not being any dwelling for a considerable distance on either side, she observed four men standing on the footpath in front of the stables. As phe passed the men one of them coughed significantly, and before she had gone half-a-dozen steps one of the men rushed at her from behind and seized her by the shoulders. She asked him to left her go, and then struggled with him. He refused to let her go, and another of the men came up and dragged her into the stables. The girl's statement of what took place described the occurrence an very similar to that at Mount Rennie, evenassertingthattwoor three other men came on the scene and participated in the crime. The girl, who is employed as a domestic servant, has hitherto borne an unexceptionable character. She made her statement in a modest and straightforward manner. Six young men, chiefly of the larrikin class, were arrested on the. charge, and on being brought before the Court were remanded. The "Evening News" sayß : — "The girl was sub mitted to a medical examination by Dr Strong, the police surgeon, and it is alleged that slight marks of violence were found upon her ; but it is understood that the doctor'e evidence will not go towards bearing out the statement of the prosecutrix that she was outraged in »he way in which she asserts she was."