ABDUCTION OF GIRL
TWO YEARS PROBATION (Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. John Southorn, a halfcaste native who yesterday pleaded guilty to a charge of abducting a Maori girl, was admit, ted this morning to two years’ probation. The magistrate, Mr. W. H. Woodward, said the case was not one of the more serious type of abduction, as the girl was a. consenting party. He made it a condition of probation that Southorn should have no communication with the girl without her parents’ consent.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18399, 17 May 1934, Page 13
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85ABDUCTION OF GIRL Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18399, 17 May 1934, Page 13
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