ABDUCTION CHARGE
GIRL OF YEARS SCHOOL BUS DRIVER’S OFFENCE (Per United Press Association) WHAKATANE, Sept. 11. Charged with the abduction of a 13-year-old girl, and with escaping from custody, Arthur Mitchell Wray, aged 25, appeared before Mr E. L, Walton, S.M., at Whakatane to-day, and was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on the first charge and was remanded on the secon 1 He pleaded guilty to the charges. The police said that Wray, who as formerly a school bus driver, struck up a friendship with one of the children. He scld the business and left the district with the girl, going *o Taupo, where he was arrested. Mr B. S. Barry, for the accused, said that Wray, with the consent of the girl’s family had been going about with her for 12 months. She suggested to Wray that they should go away together. At Taupo she set up house in a manner which would have done credit to any voman. “Abduction is considered a serious offence, and rightly so.” said the magistrate. “There was no possibility of Wray mistaking the age of the child as she is only 13. .
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24401, 12 September 1940, Page 8
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