ADVENTURES OF GIRLS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 23, 22 August 1928, Page 6

ADVENTURES OF GIRLS

YOUNG MEN CHARGED. UNSATISFACTORY EVIDENCE.

CHRISTCHURCH, August 21. The chrsges arising: from the ad-, ventures-of two young girls who en caped from,the Burwood Girls' Home Were heardTift the Supreme Court today The accused were seven -yptang men who were alleged to have had unlawful relations with the_girls, who were under sixteen years of age. "Frederick James Fox Sullivan, charged with an offence against "girlg aged 14, wa s found not guilty and discharged. ,'"','* . , " Ernest Crozier,' who was: Similar-* ly chlirged', wa 9 also found not guilty. 'Hi*s honour, Mr Justice Adams, commenting on thi 3 verdict, said to jury: '"lf it is any satisfaction t<* you; I may say I agree ientirely with the verdict in this' case. > .The evidence wag very doubtful." /The Crown Prosecutor said that with regard to the charges against the other young men, in view of the fact that tlie girl witnesses had noq beerj (believed, ;he would , consider whbt he wouldi do about them. '■'.£

y Accordingly ih'e charges asrainst Victor Robert ',Blackburn, ' James Hannah, George Quaid, Charles Timothy Rogdl, and Maurice Victor Rossiter were held over till to-morrow.