RUSTIC WOOING.

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13663, 4 September 1916, Page 4

RUSTIC WOOING.

A PERSISTENT SWAIN. RECEIVES A SALUTARY LESSON. CHRISTOIIURfIf, August 111. A salutary lesson was given a youth named John Sheehan, 17 years of age, whose ardent wooing resulted in his appearance on a charge of assault at the Magistrate's Court vesterdav, before Mr T. A. B. Bailey,'s.M. Jlrfuuingham appeared for the accused, who '■pleaded not guilty. The complainant, a girl of Mi years, said she was residing with friends at Grcenpark. She went to an entertainment, on the evening of .Inly 21 si. On coming home with two small boy cousins, she met the accused, He asked her if he could see'her home, but she refused his escort. Accused wanted to kiss her, and said he would throw her over the gorse fence if she did not lei him. lie then pushed her over am) sal on her, and tried to kiss her.

A very small boy, who was with the previous witness, gave similar, evidence, Air (Juningham said the boy's action simply was the result of a desire to kiss the girl, which was quite a natural thing at that period of a boy's'life,

The -Magistrate said he regarded any interference with females as a serious ofl'ence. If the accused had been a, man inslead of a boy, he would have been sent to gaol, but a line in this instance of J$ and costs £1 l/!i would be perhaps a sufficient lesson.