MAN SENT TO GAOL
INTERFERENCE WITH CHILD [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, November 13. For assaulting a small girl at the Exhibition on Saturday night, Richard Samuel Thomas, a blacksmith, was sentenced in the Magistrate’s Court today to six weeks in gaol. The magistrate, Mr Luxford, said such interference with children would not be allowed, and anyone who attended it would be severely punished. Detective-sergeant M'Lennan said the defendant was seen at the Exhibition with a little girl whom he had bailed up in a corner. She was crying, and the attention of the police was drawn to the incident by people nearby. The girl had just arrived in Wellington for the Exhibition,
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Evening Star, Issue 23422, 13 November 1939, Page 6
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113MAN SENT TO GAOL Evening Star, Issue 23422, 13 November 1939, Page 6
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