LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.
(Per Tress Association.) DUNEDm, this day. In the Police Court to-day Henry Young was charged with taking away a girl under 18 years of age against the will of her parents, for improper purposes. Accused pleaded guilty. Accused and the girl left their clothes (» Ocean Beach with a view to making the people think they had been drowned. Subsequently they worked their way under assumed names to Auckland. Young gave himself np to the police. Accused was sentenced •to 11 months' hard labor. Counsel for the accused suggested that a long sentence would be detrimental to accused's wife, who intended taking maintenance proceedings, but the police said they understood accused's people in England were well-off and would make provision for Mrs Young during the period of sentence.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14447, 6 November 1917, Page 4
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131LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14447, 6 November 1917, Page 4
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