ABDUCTION ALLEGED
SUPREME COURT TRIAL (P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 5. Legal representation was refused in the Supreme Court to-day by William Alexander Crossan, aged 44, a labourer and boot repairer, who was charged on one count of abduction and three 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 several hours in a house at Island Bay. The trial is expected to last two days.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23940, 6 May 1943, Page 3
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