GIRLS WHO DRINK.
DESERVE SEVERE CENSURE SAYS JUDGE. “We must all feel very regretful that young women should behave ni this beastly way with young men, going out and getting drunk. Young women who behave in this w r ay deserve severest censure.” Judge Armstrong used these words at the Sydney Quarter Sessions in a case in which Ernest James Colver (26) was charged with having assaulted Gwendoline Theresa. Ida Wright at Hornsby on the night of May 23.
Without leaving the box the jury acquitted Colver and he wms discharged.
The alleged assault, the Crown submitted,' was while the girl was intoxicated. She admitted having drunk five glasses of wine. Gwendoline Wright, who is 17 and lives at Willis-street, South Kensington, said that on May 23 she and Doris Rogers left the factory where they worked, and were driven by a young man named Purnell to North Shore, where Colver and Phyllis Cook entered the car. They then drove to Hornsby. Some wine was produced, and she had about five glasses altogether. She did not know what she was doing half the time, but remembered having fallen on the running-board. She didn’t know if she hurt herself and didn’t remember having got back into the car, “They walked me round to try and get me sober again I was sitting in the back seat when I came to my senses. Colver was with me.” Witness stated that Colver assaulted her without her consent. All her senses had gone, and when sue came to she was sitting on a chair in a house. She could not say whether she was in the car or out of it when she was assaulted.’ She arrived home early next morning but did not tell her mother. The other girls in the car said that Colver had not assaulted Wright. One, when asked how much wine she had taken, replied, “Half a glass. The other had taken “a sip.” Colver denied the charge.
The Judge said there was no corroboration of Wright’s story that she had been assaulted, and it was dangerous to, convict on uncorroborated evidence. ,
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 10885, 11 August 1932, Page 4
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353GIRLS WHO DRINK. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 10885, 11 August 1932, Page 4
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