WOMAN ATTACKED BY SHEARER
INDECENT ASSAULT ADMITTED (New Zea tana Press Association) OAMARU. December 18. A shearer who attacked a woman in the middle of the night on an isolated farm above Kurow pleaded guilty at the Magistrate’s Court. Oamaru. today to a charge of indecent assault with intent to commit rape. He also admitted a charge of converting a car to his own use. The accused. Wally Warihi Gray, aged 28. was remanded to the Supreme Court. Christchurch, for sentence. Messrs J. Armstrong and J. A. Carmichael. J.P.’s, were on the Bench. Senior-Sergeant J L. Adams prosecuted. and Mr C. Zimmermann represented the accused. Gray was stated to have attacked the woman, who was clad in night attire and a dressing gown, for a period of two hours during which he struck her many times, bruising her ups. jaws, arms, legs, and body.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28155, 19 December 1956, Page 9
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