CHARGES MADE OF HARBOURING GIRL ESCAPEES.
YOUNG MEN APPEAR BEFORE MAGISTRATE.
The hearing was continued by Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court this afternoon of charges brought against a number of men of having harboured girls who had escaped from an institution under the Child Welfare Act. The defendants were Victor Robert Blackburn, George Boloski, Albert Crozier, Ernest Crosier, Alfred Langley Phillip Gibbcns, James Hannan, George Quaid and Charles Timothy Rogal. There were three charges against Blackburn, two against Boloski. two against Albert Crozier, four against Ernest C-rozier, four against Gibbens, four against Hannan, four against Quaid and two against Rogal.
The cases had been part heard on an earlier date.
Gibbens (for whom Mr Sargent appeared) said in evidence that the statement he had made to the police was quite true. To Chief-Detective Carroll, he said the girls stopped at his house from midday till 6.30 p.m. on the Sunday, and from 10.30 o’clock that night till the next morning. He did not see them after that. Statements \yhfch they made to the contrary were not true. The girls slept in a back room. Witness slept in a front room. (Proceeding.)
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18551, 27 August 1928, Page 10
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