SPIRIT OF LOVE
’Ghost' in court (N.Z. Press Associoflowi GISBORNE. Female patrons of th< I "haunted castle” at the A and P. Show in Gisborm last week-end got more that they bargained for whet | they entered looking for i [frightening experience. | Within a short time 01 Friday the police receive! four complaints of indeceit assault at the side-show, th< ; Gisborne Magistrate's Cour was told on Tuesday. The man whose job It wa to haunt the castle pleadei guilty to two charges of in decently assaulting a female. Counsel for Grahati Douglas Wakefield, aged 3? I a showman, of Frankton said the defendant’s action had been intended as fur jand he had become carriei i away in trying to frightei people. ' Wakefield was identifier [by two 18-year-old girls I said Senior Sergeant A. J Lahmert. One said It grabbed her and tried to kis her. The other said he cam up behind her and placed hl hands over her breasts. i The defendant wa ! remanded to November 5 fo I sentence.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33673, 24 October 1974, Page 19
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