ARM ROUND HER WAIST
FOOTBALLER TOO FAMILIAR [Pkr Uxitzd Pres* Association.] HAMILTON, October 23. As the outcome of a dinner given by the Waikato Rugby Union to the touring Wellington team which played at Hamilton on September 11 two members of the Wellington team—James Douglas Mackay and William Janies Huxtable—were charged in the Police Court to-day with committing an indecent assault in the dining room of the hotel during the progress of the dinner on the waitress who was. serving them with vegetables. , After hearing evidence the Magistrate said he thought that Huxtablo bad been guilty of offensive familiarity by putting "his arm round the girl’s waist, ancf he had decided to reduce the charge against him to one of common assault. He dismissed the charge against Mackay, whose denial, he said, was entitled to the same consideration as the statement of the girl. He found Huxtablo guilty of common assault by placing his arm "around the girl. In view of the expense which the accused had oeen put to he fined him £2. An application to suppress the names of the two accused was refused.
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Evening Star, Issue 20314, 24 October 1929, Page 8
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186ARM ROUND HER WAIST Evening Star, Issue 20314, 24 October 1929, Page 8
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