A SERIOUS CHARGE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13671, 9 April 1908, Page 2

A SERIOUS CHARGE.

ALLEGED ASSAULT BY A 'SHIP'S MATE. Per Press Association, AUCKLAND, April 9. j Mr. Kettle, S.M., gave his reserved decision this morning in tlie case against Richard Dyason, tjftief olffiber of the steamer Nayua, who was charged with' having cm Sunday "evening, March 29, attempted^ a criminal as^uli; , m Florence Callaghan, aged' '123. r ' The Magistrate said the girl's story as to Dyason having dragged her to his cabin struggling and resisting wap (juite beyond credjij, the night being calm, and there being nothing to prevent cries of distress from 1 being -fie>rd'J)y the many people; near the vessel. : If, ncr evidence so far was so grossly, exaggerated, no} jury of reasonable . men would he justified in accepting her statement as tor what took place in the mate's cabin. / She bqre no sigh of a ; struggle, ' and absolutely refused, to submit to tnediqal examination. Thq case was disniissed. „ f