THE ABDUCTION CASE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9721, 17 January 1895, Page 6

THE ABDUCTION CASE.

NINE MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT. When Mr. Northcroft, S.M., took his seat in the Police Court yesterday, Joseph Buchanan was brouehfc up in custody. He had been tried on the previous day on a charge of abducting Emily Young, a girl under the age of eighteen 'years, from her parents' residence, Alangapai, with intent to have carnal knowledge of her. The case had been remanded in order that His Worship might look into the evidence, and the cases quoted in argument. Mr. Jackson Palmer prosecuted, and Mr. Braasey appeared for the | prisoner. His Worship said ho had looked into the case quoted by Mr. Brassey, bub that case was different from the present one, as the defendant in this case had not probable cause to think that the girl was over 18 years of age. Looking at the evidence of the position of the parties, it was this : The prisoner was a partner of the father of the girl, and resided in the house as one of the family. He waited until the father was away from home, and there was no one to follow him, and then left the house, according to the girl's evidence, between two and three o'clock in the morning, having arranged the day before to get a horse for the girl from a neighbour, and they travelled together from there to Auckland. Where the girl was known, at Wellsford, he took two rooms, but when they reached the Wade, where she was nob known, he took only one room, and into this they retired at dusk, and remained in it until six o'clock next morning. Then they came on here, and he took the girl to a boardinghouso, where she was 80 secreted that she could not be discovered, although advertised for, and he then procured a situation for her in a house where a servant had never been previously kept, and near his own house. It was a most painful case, and the prisoner being a married man, living with his family, his conduct was of the most base description. He would sentence the apcused to nine months' imprisonment with hard labour. Mr. Palmer applied for costs, but His Worship made no order as to costs.