Witness In Tears

NZ Truth, Issue 1128, 14 July 1927, Page 9

Witness In Tears

r ...... Cullum came/ out to the car ; and when the girl told him again that she was going to take the case to Court the jockey said, so the witness alleged: "Why not get married? That will squash the case' altogether, as , a wife cannot.give evidence against .her husband." v Then, according to the witness, the conversation rah : — ".'. '..;■' -'.■'•' !■ "Have you ; any people?" asked Cullum. ■-." ■',' ; '.'■' • „. • .! "My father lives at Graf ton," the girl informed him. ' ! Cullum said: "Can't *we get through to Grafton and get married and fix it up?".. !-,.: : !-7777--77 7- ■;• ; ■ ' "No," refused the girl; "I don't want to get . married." After- a /spell of Lawyer Abigail's cross-examination,' dealing with personalities, the witness appealed ■to Magistrate McMahon. He sided with Lawyer Abigail,' and .:she : burst into tears. .. , 7 -, "jt don't seem right that I, should be oh somebody else's- case arid have to go into all my private af- * fairs," /she sobbed. Constable Blench, of Darlinghurst, said that at '3 a.m. on June 6, he was at ' King's Cross, arid hearing screams, went to Earl Street and saw. the complainant, who was! with' two other females. He spoke "to the complainant, arid m answer , to! questions she said that she had been assaulted by a man named OWen. ' \ She was crying, and was very hysterical. Her - dress was' tdrn at! the front; her stockings were -down to her shoes, arid her mouth was very swollen. Witness took her to No. 3 Police Station. .'• '77 ! Constable Riley ' described how at 8.30 on the morning of June s, 'Sergeant Best brought ... Cullum^ to the car , m which witness was, and then informed him he was =, the man whom the girl said had, assaulted her. "7-7 Cullum said that he had intended to assault the girl, so the constable related, but that she was sp'drunk that she, fell on the running-board of the ■ car, whilst endeavoring to 7 get into, jt.- 7 ' -7 7 .77. _.-- Defendant,- Wlio m answer to the magistrate said: "Not guilty, as I have always said!" was committed for trial. Bail of £150 was, allowed.