SIX WEEKS’ GAOL.
ASSAULTING A SMALL GIRL. INCIDENT AT THE EXHIBITION. (Per 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 at tho Magistrate’s Court to-day to six weeks’ 'imprisonment. The Magistrate (Mr W. L. Luxford) said that such interference with children was not to he allowed, and anyone who attempted it would be severely punished. Detective - Sergeant McLennan said that 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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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 28, 13 November 1939, Page 6
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