AN EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4565, 24 August 1893, Page 3

AN EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE.

he nt Alleged Cruelty to a Girl. or (By Telegraph.—Press Association,) ff, t [ r Auckland, August 23; D (j A police oaso of much importance [)8 oomtneueed at the Pnkokohe l( , Eesideni Magistrates Court this (,„ afternoon, the action being one of 1C general interest as the hist case i„ taken up in Auckland by the recently „ formed socieiy for the .protection of : )6 women and children. Doctor James Dalziel, a well--10 known icsident nt Pukokuhe, and a !( ] woman nimed Mara Dalziel, other,d wise Mara Gracie, weio jointly ie charged, on an information hid by IP Countable McGovorn with ' that thev ro did on tho 16th August unlawfully beat and assault a girl named Anna ;,, Jane Dalziel, aged twenty-four years, 3t nv ber io ut post, beating her rfl with v cau o' nine tails, striking her j theiewith on the back, hip, otc, abo ( . by striking her on the faco and head ~ with the hand.' The action was ,j taken by the police on information a given by the prosecutrix. After the information bail beeu laid, Inspector d Hickson laid tho case before tho c Auckland branch of Society for the Protection ol Women nnd Children, , s with (lie result ihat the society deL - cidfd io tender the police legal (1 assistance for the prosecution. The defendants pleaded no: guilty. ~ MrJinniiie stated ihat for some j time past the two defendants had sub* i. jc cted the prosecutrix to cruelty. On 2 the occasion in question ihegirl was sent to clean an entire horse. She i was beaien altenvards so as to leave li marks on every part ot her body. The i, girl had come out to Auckland from a England two or three years =go. The ; giil iv«s not present but iii;-.i« was t room io believe that she had been . coerced, and kept away from the 'j Court, 0 Mr Baume wiled for the prosecutrix, Anna Dalziel, but there was no e appearance of the witness. Mr Hudson Williamson Baid Anna Dalziel did not intend to appear in C'ouit against her father. The girl bad told him her first complaint, tc Hie police had beon hasty. Constable McGovern deposed that when he saw the sirl on the day after the assault her face was much cut and disfigured. The girl told witness her back and stomach wero sore after the beating, and she could barely walk, She stated her father and Mrs Dalziel y whipped herseverelywithatawse.Dal- ' ziel told him teat Mrs Diikielbeatthe girl. Mrs Dalziel brought him a cat 8 o' nine tails, The girl's only reason for absenting herself was to wai f - till 8 her injuries were healed. The girl also said that a few days previous to tins beating she had got 500 lashes 1 with another fcawse, ,f Despite strong opposition by the f defonce, the Bench granted a warrant . for the arrest of the girl Anna, in r order to obtain her evidence, and the . Cise was iidpurned till Wednesday 8 next, I ■ -'