GIRL ASSAULTED
BY RAILWAY WORKER HARD LABOUR IMPOSED Two months’ imprisonment with bard labour was the penalty imposed on Vernon Dilmont Clark Bray, aged 19 years, a railway surfaceman, by Mr. A. Coleman. S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge of assaulting a girl aged lOi years. It was alleged that the offence took place on a train travelling between Marton and Hunterville, on June 30. Accused was arrested at Mangaonoho by Detective Murray, Wanganui. It was reported to the magistrate that the girl was deaf and dumb. Mr. R. Jack made a strong plea for probation, but the magistrate held that such an assault could not be adequately punished in the public interest except by imposing a term of imprisonment.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 167, 18 July 1939, Page 9
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123GIRL ASSAULTED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 167, 18 July 1939, Page 9
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