CRIMINAL CHARGE REOPENED.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 90, 16 April 1913, Page 5

CRIMINAL CHARGE REOPENED.

'■ : . AN ONEHUNOA CASE/ . -On the' 3rd of April_ast a:__an.named William McHugh was" sentenced to : one month'simprisonment, at. Onehunga by. __e_BiB,B..M-Laugh_an and A. S. Holmes, J.P.s, for indecent exposure. On the . application of Mr J. 33.. Lundon. the case-' was "re-opehed'tbis morning by the same Justices of the Peace, on "the. ground that further evidence - was -• available . ' which would materially affect the case.' •The ___t""w_tne__ c_Ued~w_sa woman "-"' residing at; Onehunga^.who .stated, that at about 9.45 ..p.m. on.'; Easter ; Mon day, t shei was- waiting in. the Seddon Memorial ■ whenva man.appeared and behaved in- ■ decently. She immediately appealed to" " a youhg mai who : was in the Memorial to-'remove him. "The - young man went * "away to do so,"hut in her opinion wasnot away long enough to have run 100 '.' yards after the .accused. From-the time.' of'-be indecent;eipc«_re'__itff.she reach- -, ed home she did not speak to her daugh-" ter on the ■matter.'"' When the witness ■ " of the aflTair; her little the man. : . Witness could not say. why-she had not ■' reported the. offence for. eight-days. _; She - " was unable toTidentify the'accused:"' ' "' A little girl, daughter;of the.last;wit- ' ness, said that hefore she went into the..... - Memorial =wrth her mother she saw-the ' accused; whom" .she knew . r as "Jack;''. Apple," ereeping'.nplto her and'he-kon---ingr-.t was then;the.ind_-TOt"a_t;"too_: : place-.: She afterwards picked •;the...aev ■ cused as the man who committed .^the-' offence- , front - among -six others.- ; .-Mr . Lundon..intimated that his line of "de-' . fence will he.a'case. of -mistaken identity. : The-ease is-proceeding. j; . -diss K. 'T.-Edgerleyi M.A.,: has been .. appointed by the Education Board as i instructor in hbtahy, afpupil teachcis* .-.' , Saturday-classes.,. __ „.... .-. A warningto employers "of Territorials ' was issued at. the Magistrate's Court this morning by ."Mr.; E. C. Cuttsn, S.M. A number of young men came up for hot attending military camp, and two r of them." said that they could not get away front' £ work. The prosecuting.military officer stated that; the "employers of.the lads .: had written just on the eve of the camp-.. . asking for. exemption '-'■ for the but. _ it was" then" too Hate."~_-h_. .Magistrate .. 9 advised the representative, of the .Defence c Department to take action'against. ths . ~' employers in.cases where they the _* \ young fellows restrained from complying ' c with their defence duties, particularly d in'the c__e of taxi-cab' L people. c ' ,' '' " " " ' ' "*~^