CRIMINAL SITTINGS
(Pia United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, February 8. In the Supreme Court to-day the jury found Byron Maurice Bartley guilty of having unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl aged fifteen years and two months, at Wallaceville. He was remanded for sentence. “It is essential that our women should be protected and that they should be able to walk on the streets without being subject to assaults of this sort,” said Mr Justice Ostler when sentencing Ronald Donaldson, a labourer and mirier, aged twenty-five, to fourteen days’ bard labour for assaulting a young woman near the nurses’ home in December last. Donaldson was charged with indecent assault and common assault, but was found guilty by the jury on the second count only, with a strong recommendation to mercy. A charge of unlawfully using an instrument with a view to procuring a miscarriage was preferred against Julia May Ruddlesdcn alias Julia May Prescott, a domestic servant, aged fortyfour. The jury found her guilty, with a strong recommendation to mercy. Mr Justice Ostler remanded her for sentence to-morrow.
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Evening Star, Issue 21641, 9 February 1934, Page 1
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