Two Whangarei Men On Serious Charge
[Special to “Northern Advocate ”l AUCKLAND, This Day. Two young men from Whangarei, Kenneth Nicholson, tiler (Mr Sullivan) and Owen Cyril Wilkie, labourer (Mr Robinson), were charged before Mr Justice Fair and a jury in the Supreme Court today with rape, and on .alternative counts with attempted rape, assault with intent, and indecent assault. Mr V. R. Meredith ’(for the Crown) said evidence would be led to show that the offence took place in a motor car in which the young woman and the two accused were driving to Whangarei, from a party at Kamo, where the car had been diverted to an isolated spot. The case is proceeding.
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Northern Advocate, 9 May 1940, Page 6
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