ALLEGED ABDUCTION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 111, 7 April 1927, Page 8

ALLEGED ABDUCTION.

MAN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.

Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, April 6. At the Magistrate’s Court at Clyde yesterday, Arthur Cyril Bond was charged with, on March 3, at Clyde, abducting an unmarried girl under the age of 18 years. Mr D. J. Simpson, of Dunedin, appeared for accused, who elected to be tried by jury. Evidence was given by the mother and father of the girl, to the effect that no consent was given, nor had they any knowledge that their daughter intended to run away. George Frye, motor proprietor, gave evidence that, hired by Bond, he took him and the girl in a car to Oamaru, where they arrived about 6 a.m. Bond could not get change of a £6O note to pay for the hire, so they proceeded to Glenavy, where he left them. Bond said to the girl just before his (Fryers) departure that she could go back in the car if she wished to.

The girl in the case stated that accused had given her about £lO altogether, and she had left him at Wellington, where they had stayed at the same hotel. They occupied separate rooms.

Counsel submitted that it was not a case that should be sent to the Supreme Court. The girl had told Bond that she wanted to go away and he had consented to let her accompany him. Bond was certainly not guilty of abduction.

Mr H. J. Dixon, S.M., said that there was a case to answer and he committed defendant to the Supreme Court at Dunedin.

Accused pleaded not guilty and reserved his defence. The girl in the case was convicted on a charge of vagrancy and was ordered to oome up for sentence at any time in the next two years.