GIRL DISAPPEARS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 14, 7 April 1927, Page 10

GIRL DISAPPEARS

ABDUCTION CHARGE FOLLOWS MAN SENT FOR TRIAL Press Association. DUNEDIN, Wednesday. At the Magistrate’s Court at Clyde last night, Arthur Cyril Bond was charged with on March 3 at Clyde abducting an unmarried girl under the age of 18 years. Mr. D. J. Simpson, Dunedin, appeared for accused, who elected to be tried by jury.

Evidence was given by the mother and father of the girl to the effect that no consent was given, nor had they any knowledge that their daughter intended to run away. George Frye, a motor proprietor, gave evidence that, he was hired by Bond and took him and the girl in a car to Oamaru, where they arrived about 6 a.m. Bond could not get change of a £SO note to pay for the hire, so they went to Glenavy, where he left them. Bond said to the girl just before his, Frye’s, departure that she could go back in the car if she wished to. The girl in the case denied that intimacy had taken place, neither had accused even suggested anything of the kind. Aeused had given her about £lO altogether, and she had left him at Wellington, where they had stayed at the same hotel as Miss Dale and Mr. Harris. They occupied separate rooms. Counsel submitted that it was not a case that should be sent to the Supreme Court. There was no suggestion of carnal knowledge. The girl had told Bond that she wanted to go away and he had consented to let her accompany him. Bond was certainly not guilty of abduction. Mr. Dixon, S.M., said there was a case to answer and he committed defendant to the Supreme Court at Dunedin. Accused pleaded not guilty and reserved his defence. The girl in the case was convicted on a charge of vagrancy and was ordered to come up for sentence at any time within the next two years.