YOUNG GIRL ABDUCTED.
SEQUEL IN POLICE COURT. TAIHAPE, April 27. At the Police Court to-day, Clarence Amos Woods was charged with the abduction from her home of a girl of II years and nine months. The girl in question gave her evidence reluctantly, weeping bitterly. She said that accused took her away at her request. She, in company with accused, rode away on the Napier-Taihape road, both riding the same horse, the man carrying a swag a».'l she a portmanteau. Tney travelled for three days, and at night they slept in the scrub. It was accused’s intention to take her to Napier and then to send her to Auckland to her sister. Accused cut witness’s hair off with his pocket knife to disguise her. Accused treated her well and did her no harm. The police evidence disclosed that after a search of two days and nights the accused and the girl were discovered asleep in the scrub 65 miles from Taihape. The «tirl was found to be in a dilapidated Ttate—dirty and without stockings. The accused admitted when arrested having taken the girl away his intention being to send her to Auckland to her sister. The accused, who had nothing to say, pleaded guilty, and was committed for sentence to the Wanganui Supreme Court on May 11. Bail was refused.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3764, 4 May 1926, Page 18
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