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Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 13906, 6 November 1919, Page 7

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- " i»""■ I'vi htuuililiiitt'!* ill .> :r : ' !:*,;• >! (Mr I'". W iie!'''''- -^' r :ir " „• tit-- Court yestcr.',ri- .nde'.ently assault- -. - i three girls in fi' 1 ' jV-.T aged 13, 13, and 15 . t ... ;; ._;irl of 15.. stated V®".' doing arithmetic in & ,V* w Ut 27 Reilly came l -'i h'r on her right and a;'d committed the ; ter sj"iill- twice on 27th & t.-„ -li" children went out i*»: d again the followfi'-' , "Don't tell any4**. iie did the same i :r ""j, ' k-!t. sitting on his \Vitiu>>- interposed to take it- away. . I'li.-r,- were 25 chilr'ii,- room at the time. plainly where 1 I*,,j. „'.f the girl next to ! :? 'i i'cvii doing this for two Later he put ei 7- as her chest. He •'.'itiiess and did it j :a t beside the next ii'-i"- ' l v -" ;ls usual i," ;• tiire*' days a week. •, j^, r Hjotiter within two or ?:r-; time, and again i, r , r . Witness' mother !.-:rk t" -ehool as she did lw-r lessons. Her ; ;■ all along. i-videliee that the "'tiff''"" l September last, did not want to go u :.-k>-d why. she said K,l itifrfered with her -"'d her to go to '.| u limtiglit the girl had .-'ti' i-onld not believe iiii 11.iu'lieve it when *,vi re made by the - ,r another girl to con-w-ek after the first .i f! ii"' see any other •;iI Sunday. October 2G.. : Tlte told her at-' hj- hand on her le<* The girl complained ..u; )'• Witness thought of ("ii::;n:lt!ei-. but did not do ; : -Jiiuk they acted as done iii a former ease V r : contracted rheuma,alight outside, and ~-u 'rcferrid to the Edit- 1 ~j,' i'ar ta-jught they might C:r thi.- ea-e. ~,j „,>! witne.-s stated that'"'r t ' u> same way ■jj. -ir.'t. She had never seen auv.-ne i 1.-e but the first .„ir. She had seen him dovjrit iiiri only on two days, it i~- "'i October 13 withi- effort. On October r (1,, the same thing as iv Sr-r '_'irl- aurl witness saw ni rile way. itinel: The fir.-t witness was i: i;,-r v.iieii Reilly annoyed -•',cr i- 1 . She did not see r-thir-z i" the first witness 'he other scholars ipt! all lie did. mine-- -laied that on T-'hile the first and see-u-i-re sittinir beside the middle. Reilly saf j fi-: ra 'ir-r riglit side and f;-|; livr clothes and whis--in' did not hear. - jr.t'riored with the second . >o'.' only saw this once. ,:t liii:! do it to the first .. ; :o'. j: ihe same time as •,i.wliuut the same time, .r Lilore i.ory. Somerville o ;oM I.ory what Reilly a! Pe.iiiy nothing.

i i<>M I.nry ivlnit she .i-j tin- other nirl. It was about ;i week I.j that Kcilly tried to i the iwil iiover seen him rVilr before that. _~<iiix»i regularly. -■■[ with witness first. :dr>t irirl witness and / --i-foiitl Liirl witness. <itin r tiro witnesses .:•> teacher's action awful. told their parents. :t!ivp witness saw it hap- - ikl lint illvw no ata-_ Tiie last time witness : ■ anyone was Septein-i-a: between the first and > ;r.-! \vi,u!vl have seen itswiMitt Stajipoole : The wore i.n i -'it'll October. iil'fi-ued to the girls while s the .Sixth witness knew -latt'ti thai lie saw Keilly third girl's blouse Hi-did not rememlier Lhe i; 7- lietliy once interfering **:! HirL istd: He could always see y.i-r (iir-i irirl'i was .sitting, r. !!"iih do anyt liin«* to her. r ■'[ the third lc'.i'l witness :o:I::it lit- did not hear of -Li-.e .imiplained ol with his f>: the arrest. On October it- girl toll Lory about it IP-.!- ..f I!,■illy. Keilly said

i.rr.-il: The first witness - - v.ii.'H Uie lather of the on l]i>th October at 8 r.f- a»kvd if Ueilly had ever |r,:h !'t-r and the girl said ! Ar.ikr-.n. stationed at ovul.-me of receiving i' if telephone on tiviv li'Miirh'- and secured ircn ilitfeivnt witnesses, ■i ;t- ••iifcil at T.lo Ihe ffcwt .-Larged. iU'illy said o> snake. : -r-'.-r ;l:c evidence had ;in- Magistrate to 7 I'Ti tui!\ Wore allowing &• anv Jurther. The -n -,v;;11■ is ;j■ -hi' alleged as"i! '.i\ contained. at -r "■-: v to have V"<iu\-hv,- i-iiildreti. yet <ii til stones were SXj; v «•»»•* going oil day ill iiiiwir. one word ol cor- •=-. pupils. The any other l)ti[>d - 1 - mi .i day which he • 11 1I.» a cold day. ■ Ni! -tinn had been having been done -;- 1 - ui hini!. All three - "if against whom .;!■ in have been t home day l>y day. 7 : • "liv;-. sir. the mother ll.' -A.mid ask the *-'■ ol.i'Ve it either. '-•-•■ a i!.! action. but was ""■:iii i'i-H-v; like l.iving- - oil\. Anol her ot m> ...-.ivvtUm at all. and I'.iiL'.i:-. who dill not - ; i .nil! about the V*'*;" vad r. was not his f'' vVHUaii i' ll finally , itl i-sue. hut he >oine reason- ■ i". •.hurge. as had «-a»\ to make, .-till for the iiiuiself of. He rievidence f>y :■ nnitualiy de>!i,' had been il "•*" *•* and the deti'f alleged offence? Hit , ount of the tint; up iv the .1 ' ' ' ; - l ■ io*. extended r- I ';' l '*' ,'' u; 'hey had ■_ iit—t- from be-~-o'l that the as- • " :i O'-tolier 27::'..fie M.eii[ilaints l<> :: I'i.i ull s, ueeorilr l ; r ' - irum t hose l- -, ''' l'" x - that she ii. I':." ai. l easing e.\T 1 "' ; ' moiher. The 'i 10 ' 11 ' I '. ri'ipiired con-.-•"•-.uii. >l ;e jj ( | no , ll( ._ U't'"" ;; ' A "'-<iJ eotiiirtlia-.-tateiiient of j- ~ ;l the action i: r-- 'aiix-iisonalile H so many coniUot take imr; .;=* made . had not gone ;l former r " ! .' l had ( ijii- • U-V'f l>ein« taught t-.v"!'." " " actid upon 1 I''irents must , '"'-""een oducn- ■ .; :mm< ?rality. The ! - ? "ifness as r °"'d not he true.

As the father of girls himself, he could say that the teachers' hand could not have been run up under a girl's clothes to her breasts without undoing her clothes. This witness said that the assault.- on her took place 011 October 13 and 27. and only on two occasions, whereas the first witness said that the assaults were committed on her Ire(jiicntly several times a day on occasions. and that on all occasions she had been interfered with ihe second witness, who sat beside her. had been seen by her to be similarly assaulted. The third .girl witness said that she was so ill-treated on September 1..V, but there was absolutely no corroboration of her statement. She says that she mentioned it to tho first and second girl witnesses, and this third witness' evidence was important, because of its effect on that of the other two. She. | tells of an assault on the second girl ! witness on September 2-j. but the second gill witness said that nothing of the kind happened to her until October 5. The alleged assault- on the third girl witness, could not have taken place without the knowledge of the second <"irl witness. That, assaults oi such a nature should be made in the open class-room was ridiculous. No man should be put on trial before a jury on such evidence. A further'point was i that- the three girl witnesses were sit- ] ting together, and. in common-sense. | one and each would have known all that the schoolmaster was doing to any of them. It seemed quite impossible for such assaults to havejaken place without others knowing oi it. Apart from the evidence ol these three girls, then* was nothing against Reilly. A little chap, sitting in a good place to see. saw all that happened. If anything more objectionable had been done to the third witness than, as was stated by her, the putting of his hand on her shoulders, that witness would surely have mentioned it- in Court. Probably Reilly had put his hand on her back in the paternal fashion schoolmasters had at times. He dealt with tin; alleged details ol tho assaults. It niiglit be suggested: \\ hy should children say these, tilings? Oiten. lie v e gretted to say in his own experience, and in that of others, children got depraved ideas in their heads, and thenimagination ran away with tllem. and they said all kinds of thiiigs which were proved not- to be so. Ihe accused was entitled to be discharged.