THE ABDUCTION CASE.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9890, 17 January 1895, Page 3

THE ABDUCTION CASE.

Auckland, Wednesday.

Mr Nortbcrofr, S. M,, in sentencing Joseph Buchanan for the abduction of Emily Young, aged 18 years, the daughter of a settler at Mangapal, said he came now to consider Buchanan's position, that was, the position he had occupied in her father's house. It was shown that he was a partner and a friend of the girl's father, and was living in tbe bouse in virtue of bis position as one of the family. He waited until the father was away from home, and there was nobody to follow him, and then stole oat, as tbe girl stated herself, between 2 and 3 o'clock in the morniDg (having arranged to get a horse the day before from a next-door neighbor), and travelled to Auckland with the girl. Where the girl was known he took two rooms ; where the girl was not known he took only one room, retired to U directly after dusk and remained there until 6 o'clock next morning. Hq then came down here and took her to a hoarding house where she was not likely to be discovered. Then, although he knew the family were trying to find her eveiy where, and that on advertisement had been put in the papers, he still refused to allow her parents to know where he had put her. He had afterwards obtained a situation for her in a bouse, where, as the girl herself had said, no one bad been as a servant before herself. ThU place, it had been shown, was situated near defendant's home, at Mount Eden. Taking all these circumstances into consideration, he thought it was a most painfnl case for him (the speaker) to go through. He could scarcely have imagined that a man, a married man, could have been so base as defendant had been shown to be tbrougbout this case. He would sentenco him to nine months' imprisonment in Auckland prison with hard labor.