ABDUCTION CHARGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1939, Page 8

ABDUCTION CHARGE

AGAINST MELBOURNE WOMAN. ANOTHER REMAND GRANTED IN AUCKLAND. ' (By Telegraph—Press Association.) . AUCKLAND, October 24. A further remand was today granted in the case of a Melbourne woman who was arrested on the arrival of the Monterey from Sydney on October 16. Accused, whose name the magistrate ordered should not be published, was arrested on a provisional warrant dated at Melbourne on October 12, charging her with unlawfully taking an unmarried girl under 16 out of the possession and against the will of her parent and guardian and person having lawful care and charge of her. She appeared before Mr Orr Walker, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court the same afternoon, when the police, in obtaining a remand till today, stated that her husband, who laid the information against her, intended leaving for Auckland, and might be here by today. Police also stated at the time that accused was living apart from her husband, who was a prominent citizen of Melbourne, and that she left Sydney on the Monterey with her daughter, having booked passengers for San Francisco.

Accused was remanded till today' on bail of £2OO, conditional upon her passports and letter of credit, remaining in the possession of the police. Her daughter, meanwhile, remains as a guest in the home of Mr H. P. Richmond, counsel for accused’s husband. When the case was called this morning Detective-Sergeant McHugh asked for a further remand till October 31. Mr A. H. Johnstone, who appeared for accused, suggested that the remand should be till October 27. Mr Johnstone said there seemed to be little reason why the amount fixed as bail should be as high as it was. Mr Orr Walker remanded the case till Friday on the same terms as before. ’