LOVERS’ PREDICAMENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3996, 29 July 1913, Page 5

LOVERS’ PREDICAMENT.

ROMANCE LEADS TO POLICE COURT. A YOUNG GIRL’S INFATUATION. [PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM] DUNEDIN, July 28. At the Police Court to-day Albert Percy Olding, who gave his age as 23 years, was charged with taking an unmarried girl aged 15 years and six months from the control of her parents. Evidence was given by the girl’s mother (Mrs Perry), that she knew accused in Wellington, where she kept refreshment rooms. About the end of April she and her husband came to Dunedin for a holiday, leaving their daughter in a situation, but before they returned the girl had left the place and, it was discovered, she had been living with accused. About the end of May the parents and daugter left and came to live in Dunedin. On July 16 their daughter left for work, but about midday the mother got a telegram from Oamaru saying she did not intend to return. Accused was arrested in Christchurch that night. On one occasion the mother had trouble with the girl over accused, and gave her a thrashing, and the girl went away, but returned next day. The father of the girl also gave evidence to the effect that trouble had arisen over accused keeping company with her. He said accused told him once he was married to the girl, but subsequently admitted he was not married. 1 he daughter gave evidence with reference to meeting accused on July 15. She said she had written to him and asked him to take her to Christchurch. Accused was a waiter at the Hotel Cecil and a barman at the Pier Hotel, Wellington. She was not happy at home as her father was always growling at her about accused. Olding was committed for trial, bail being allowed in his own recognisance of £IOO and two sureties of £SO each.