ASSAULT ON GIRL
ACCUSED ADMITTED TO PROBATION (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, August 10. “I have formed the opinion it would be utterly to send you to gaol,” Mr Justice North told Simon Bolton Wells, aged 23, a salesman, in the Supreme Court today, when admitting Wells to probation for three years. Wells had been found guilty of assaulting a 15-year-old girl with intent to commit rape, ana had pleaded guilty to attempted unlawful carnal knowledge of the girl. Counsel for Wells suggested probation, on condition that Wells underwent such medical or surgical treatment as doctors thought proper, and that he then lived on his father’s farm at Tirau, or such other farm as the Probation Officer directed. His Honour granted probation on these conditions. Counsel said the basic cause of the trouble was Wells’s loneliness in a large city. His head master had told him he had been morally sound at school, but suffered from nervous tension.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27425, 11 August 1954, Page 13
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