ABDUCTION ALLEGED
BOOT REPAIRER CHARGED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Legal representation was refused in the Supreme Court to-day by William Alexander Crossan, aged 44, labourer and boot repairer, who was charged on one count of abduction and three counts alleging possession of a revolver and the use of it to intimidate a married woman separated from her husband. Evidence for the Crown was that Crossan took the woman from her home in Wadestown early one morning at the point of the revolver, and kept her for several hours in a house at Island Bay. The trial is expected to last for two days.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 106, 6 May 1943, Page 6
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