WELLINGTON SME COURT

NZ Truth, Issue 771, 14 August 1920, Page 5

WELLINGTON SME COURT

: — ♦ Young Girl Attacked WICKED WALDEN. A young man named Charles Eric Walden, a sea-cook by profesh, for whom Mr. T. M. Wilford appeared, pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault -with intent to commit rape. The evidence for the prosecution was on the lines of that given In the Qower court, and which 'has already appeared m "Truth." Accused is alleged to 'have introduced himself to the girl while on her way "home on the night of June 17. He accompanied her to Boulcott-st., where* she was employed as a domestic, and it is alleged that, as the girl went to walk up the driveway of her employer's residence, accused came behind her and threw her violently to the ground, when a desperate struggle ensued, which was only terminated when the girl's screams had attracted a neighbor's attention. Tho jury found Walden guilty of indecent assault. Walden was sentenced to three years' detention for reformation purposes at Invercarg-ill. His Honor stating that he had committed perjury of the worst kind m attempting to blacken the character of the girl m order to get himself out of trouble. . - |