ALLEGED INDECENT ASSAULT.
IWCtDEKT AT PTJTARTTRU. JURY %AIL TO AGREE. ißv Te:e?raph—Oifu Correspondent.) HAMILTON", this day. A youth named Arnold Francis Samuel Voker, aged IS, was charged before Mr. Justive Stringer, at Hamilton, yesterday, with an indecent assault on a grrl of Ij at Putaruru. The girl's evidence was to the effect that she was proceeding home from the pictures on a recent Saturday night, when prisoner spoke to her and later put his arm around her waist, and her, afterwards picking h<r up in his arms. She screamed and a neighbour named Herring came on the scene, when Coker departed. William Herring said he was in ibed when he heard a scream, and going out saw the girl struggling in the youth's arms. The boy walked away as witness approached and the girl said Coker had tried to kiss her. The prisoner admitted that he placed hi.s arm around the girl's waist. She told him to stop, and as she struggled i away she fell and he picked her up by I putting both arms around her. Hβ denied the alleged assault. After a four hours' retirement the jury failed to ajrree, and a new trial was ordered.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 37, 9 March 1922, Page 3
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