ABDUCTION CASE.
MARRIED'MAN SENT TO PRISON. ! Dunedin, Nov. 6. In the Police Court to-day Harry Young was charged with taking away a girl under eighteen years of age, against the will of her parents, for improper purposes. Accused pleaded guilty. Accused and the girl left their clothes on Ocean Beach with a view to making people think they had been drowned. Subsequently they worked their way to Auckland under assumed names, where Young gave himself up to the police. Accused was sentenced to 11 months' hard labor, Counsel for accused sugfested that a long sentence would be etrimental to accused's wife, who intended taking maintenance proceedings, but the- police said they understood accused's people in England were well off, and would make provision for Mrs 1 . Young during the (period of sentence.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1917, Page 2
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132ABDUCTION CASE. Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1917, Page 2
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