THREE COMMITTED FOR TRIAL
Charges Of Rape Against Youths
(New Zealand Press Association) NAPIER, May 6. Three Napier youths were committed to the Supreme Court for trial on charges of rape this afternoon by Justices of the Peace at the end of a two-day hearing in the Napier Magistrate’s Court. Bail was allowed each accused and they were warned not to communicate with the complainant, a 16-year-old Napier girl. The youths are Raymond Leonard Hartley, aged 18, auto mechanic, James Albert Hansen, aged 19, machinist, and William James Thomson, aged 19, workman. They are charged with the rape of the girl then aged 15, at Redcliffe, near Taradale, on February 7, 1959.
Thomson and Hansen, who were represented by Mr H. W. Dowling, also faced an alternative charge of attempted rape. Hartley was represented by Mr J. C. K. Fabian. Evidence was taken from nine witnesses during the hearing.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28888, 7 May 1959, Page 16
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