ASSAULT ON GIRL
ELACKSMITH SENT TO GAOL FOR SIX WEEKS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. For assaulting a small girl at the Exhibition on Saturday night Richard Samuel Thomas, a blacksmith, aged 55, was sentenced in the Magistrate’s Court today to six weeks’ in gaol. The Magistrate, Mr J. H. Luxlord, said such mtereference with children could not be allowed and anyone who attempted it would bo severely punished. Detective-Sergeant McLennan said the defendant was seen at the Exhibition with a little girl, whom he had bailed up in a corner. She was crying and the attention of the police was drawn to the incident by people nearby. The girl had just arrived in Wellington for the Exhibition.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1939, Page 6
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119ASSAULT ON GIRL Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1939, Page 6
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