OFFENCES AGAINST GIRLS
PLEAS OF GUILTY. ' .' i ' [PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, December 19. A grave offence at Day’s Bay against a girl of 41 years was admitted' by John Phillip Crompton Collett, a garage employee, at Petone Police Court, to-day. Collett, who is single, aged 33, living at Wellington, further pleaded guilty to another charge of indecent assault against a girl at Belmont. A witness stated that following on a complaint by the mother at Day’s Bify that her little girl had been assaulted, he saw the accused mounting a bicycle. Collett made to strike him, and ride off, but witness pulled the bicycle from under him, and the accused ran to the end of the wharf. In answer to witness’s call, several other men came, and' managed to overpower the accused. A doctor stated the girl’s injuries were serious, and might lead to grave consequences.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 December 1933, Page 2
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