"PERNICIOUS NONSENSE."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 2993, 18 September 1908, Page 5

"PERNICIOUS NONSENSE."

THE UNWRITTEN LAW

AN AUSTRALIAN CASE

deceived September 17, 9.25 a.m. MELBOURNE, September 17. Mr Justice Hood, in reviewing the justices' decision in an "unwritten Jaw" case heard in July, said an assault by the father of the girl had .been proved, and no legal defence t ha;] been made. 1 Some pernicious tr.oisei.se wa3 talked with reference to what was called the "unwritten law" in America, and after argument the magistrate had dismissed the case on this grojnd H iwe'ver, at would take very cogent evidence to satisfy him (Mr Justice Hood) that rany tJritisti court of justice ever gave effect to such a monstrous proposition. He set aside the justices' ■decision, and fined defendant £2. On July 20th, last Ernest Harold Williams, musician,, charged Freleric May, restaurantkeeper, and i |iig son, George May, at the District before Messrs Lord and Verga, with having unlawfully as- ' Wulted him at his room, Collins ' Street.'Williams, a married man, livinj apart from his wif j, had visited at"the hou eof defendants, and it was due to this fact, said defendants, that Dolly May, daughter of Frederic May,left home. The assault \was not denied.