SERIOUS CHARGES.
ACCUSED NOT IDENTIFIED. WITNESS EXPRESSES DOUBT. A plea of guilty was entered by George William Atford (Mr. Dickson) in the Supreme Court yesterday, on a charge of indecently assaulting a girl aged six years in Auckland on September 21. Mr. Justice Herdman postponed sentence until to-morrow morning, bail being refused. A charge of indecently assaulting a giri of six years was preferred against John Dean Drake (Mr Rudd), who pleaded not guilty. The offence was alleged to have taken place in Auckland on October 17. Owing to a serious discrepancy in the evidence of William John Hogan, the principal witness as to identity, Mr. Justice Herdman directed the jury to return a verdict of not guilty. In the Lower Court Hogan stated accused was the man ha chased and caught, but yesterday he said that after the identification parade he. could not be sure oi the man, aud when he heard him speak in the Lower Court he realised he was not the man.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19778, 27 October 1927, Page 15
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