A GIRL'S STRANGE STORY.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 384, 13 July 1889, Page 4

A GIRL'S STRANGE STORY.

The next witness was a young givl in a brown dress. She was apparently about eighteen years old. She said that she was onco in the omploy of Mrs Robinson as a servant for about five months, and she sworo to certain nameless propositions which Mr Robinson made to her when she ua 3 only thirteen yoars old. On the following morning on arising ho told her to say nothing to his wife, and he offered her a so\ercign to keep silent, which she refused to accept. No crimo was committed because of her youth. In reply to this J ustico 33utt said it could not be considoicd evidence of the ciimo charged in the petition. "Have you any other witnos&es — is this all you can prove ?" he asked. "I have another statement," Mrs Robinson replied, " which is, in writing and was taken before a Special Commission." "Is it heie? give io to mo," said the Justice quickly. There was a rustle all over the court-room, and ladies in tho gallery and in tho benches below leaned forward with new interest, while the silence became profound. Tho document was a deposition from Robert Boyd, chief steward of another vessel of the same line, corroborating the statements of tho pi e\ ions witnesses.