A SERIOUS CHARGE
ACCUSED COMMITTED FOR TRIAL ABDUCTION ISSUE DISAIISSED. (Per United Press Association.) WHANGAREI, March 28. Chari ' Roy Banton, a taxi proprietor, of Dargaviilo, and Ivor Vincent Scoles, a printer’s apprentice, also of Dargaville, were charged in the Magistrate’s Court before Air F. AI. Lcvien, S.M., to-day, with abducting two young Whangarei girls 16 and 15 respectively against the will of their parents. Banton was also charged with attempting to know unlawfully and carnally a girl under 16 years. Scoles was also charged with abetting Banton in the commission of the alleged crime, .which occurred, after a motor journey to Dargaville last Saturday week, in an unoccupied house. The accused were found by Sergeant Griffiths, of Dargaville, as a result of a message wired through from Whangarei police. The charge against Scoles was dismissed, and he was committed to the Supreme Court on the charge of abetting. Banton was committed on the charge of attempted carnaj knowledge, the charge of abduction being dismissed. Bail in each case was allowed in the sum of £IOO self and a surety of £IOO.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20060, 29 March 1927, Page 10
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181A SERIOUS CHARGE Otago Daily Times, Issue 20060, 29 March 1927, Page 10
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