KISSED ON A 'BUS.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 December 1926, Page 13 (Supplement)

KISSED ON A 'BUS.

GIRL’S COMPLAINT. A girl’s complaint that she was kissed by a man while they were travelling late at night on a bus along the Camden Road was heard tit Marylebone Police Court. William Burls,' of Hornsey, was fined 10s, with lbs costs. The girl, Miss Dora Dobson, of York Road, said that whilst they were seated on the back seat of the bus Buris put his arm around her and began to kiss her. She got off the bus at the first opportunity and complained to the conductor. The conductor said that when he went on top to collect fares at Camden Road he saw Burls’s arm around the girl’s neck. She seemed to be protesting, but she did not complain to him then. Later he saw her struggling with Burls, and when she came down she remarked: "It is a pity I cannot travel on an omnibus without being interfered with." The Magistrate (to the girl): ‘This young man seems to have been seized with a sudden admiration for you. What do you want done to him?” The Girl: "I think he ought to go to prison." The Magistrate: "From what the conductor says you were not so very angry at first. It is suggested that if ycu had objected sufficiently at. first it would not have happened. f However, respectable women ought not to be subjected to unwelcome attentions on omnibuses."