TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22744, 3 December 1935, Page 12

TELEGRAMS

(Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, December 2. “ The facts disclosed in this case should draw the attention of parents and others in charge of children to the danger of allowing boys to associate with elderly men living alone,” said Mr Justice Fair, when Edmond Grove Bennett, aged 64. appeared in the Supreme Court on seven chargee of indecently assaulting boys. The accused was committed for sentence from Taumarunui. His Honor said the depositions showed that the offences had extended over 10 years. _ Bennett was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, with •hard labour. WANGANUI, December 2. Victor Price, aged 25, who was charged this morning with forging a cheque at Dannevirke, and with the abduction of Mary Emma Shiel, aged 15, at Ohakune, was remanded to appear at Ohakune on December 6. CHRISTCHURCH, December 2. Described by himself as the oldest taxi driver in Christchurch, haying been driving a cab since 1909, Phillip John Kelly, aged 61, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called on within 12 months, when he appeared before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M., in court this morning on a charge of being intoxicated in charge of a car. The magistrate declared that it was a great pity that Kelly, with 40 years of unblemished record as the holder of a licence of some sort or another, should have fallen from grace. As Kelly was now on sustenance, he could not inflict a fine, but would cancel his licence for 12 months.