ALLEGED INDECENT ASSAULT NEAR ALEXANDRA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2117, 2 February 1886, Page 3

ALLEGED INDECENT ASSAULT NEAR ALEXANDRA.

At the Police Court on Saturday, before Me«»rs G. T. Wilkinson and J. D. Hill, J.P., Frederick Appleyard, of Alexandra, was brought up, charged with committing an indecent assault on Mrs Cue, a halfcaste, of Paterangi, on the 26th mat. Mr O'Neill appeared for the defence, and Ins|«ctor W. A. Kiely prosecuted on behalf of the police. W. Oliver acted as interpreter. The following evidence was taken : Sophia Coe, sworn, deposed : — I am the wife of Daniel Coe, residing at Paterangi. On the morning of the 26th Frederick Appleyard and Arthur Smith came to my house. I have known Appleyard for the last 6 years. Smith came for some meat to deliver at Te Rore, and both left to go there. When they got to the gate they saw it was going to rain, and Smith returned for his coat, Appleyard coming with him. Smith left with his coat immediately, but Appleyard took the saddle off his horse, saying he would remain until the rain ceased. He then followed me into the house and sat down talking to me in the kitchen. He said, " What a lot of rings you have got," at the name time catching me by both wrists. He pushed me down on the sofa. [The evidence here is unfit for publication.] I shoved him away, but he still persisted. He said, " Don't resist or I will be rougher." I told him I would tell ray husband. I resisted him and succeeded in keeping him away from me. I fat into my bedroom and fattened the oor. I had the children with me in the kitchen, and left them crying there. I stayed in the bedroom until my husband returned from Ohaupo. Accused told me not to tell my husband, and he would give i me a gold ring. I told him I did not want ! one. He said, " You can tell your husband that you found it." He said he was a good man; if he was a bad man he would kill me. To the Bench : The conversation was partly in English and partly in Maori. By Inspector Kiely : I had a mark on my knees, caused by accused. There was also a bruise on my side. The accused pre\ented me from going outside. The nearest house is half a mile away. By Mr O'Neill : I did not ask accused into the house to see the canaries. I did not ask him to remain until the rain was over. The duration of the assault was about 15 or 20 minutes. I laid a charge against another man for assaulting me indecently. The case was dismissed. To the Bench : I was locked up in my room for about two hours. I was afraid of Appleyard. Daniel Coe deposed : I am a labourer residing at Mr Smith's farm, Paterangi. I know the accused. He and I went to Ohaupo, driving cattle, on the 26th instant. The accused left me and I returned to the farm ; I returned home about midday, and saw my little boy outside the house crying. Appleyard came out of the house. He said, "I have been makine myself at home Dan, out of the rain. He was making towards his horse at the same time. I called to him to stop and have a bit of dinner. He declined. I went into the house and found my wife locked in the bedroom crying. She informed me Appleyard had insulted her. I went and caught my horse and went into Alexandra, and reported the case to Constable Jones. I saw the scratch on her knee and the print of a man's fingers on her side. The child told me when I came home, " papa, this naughty man has been knocking mamma down, and now she is howling away." The accused could have heard this, and I believe this brought him out. By Mr O'Neill : I can't say if accused was excited. When he came out of the door, he did not run but walkod quickly away, talking. After the child's remark I asked the accused to stop and have some dinner. To the Bench: I have no reason for suspicion of anything wrong between my wife and the accused. Arthur Smith, on being sworn, stated : I reside with my father at Alexandra. He has a farm at Paterangi, and is a butcher. We kill cattle at Paterangi and take the meat for sale from there. Coe and his wife live at the farm. I know accused. On the 26th I went to the slaughteryard to get meat for the customers. I met accused at the gate. He was riding, and I was in a waggon. This was about 11 a. m. I went to the yard and got my meat. Accused said to me when in the yard, " Now is your chance," or, '• Now is the chance. Dan is away from home." I replied, " Don't start that here, or else Mrs Coe will knife you." I then went to catch my horse. Appleyard was going to Te Rore to catch a horse. We went as far as the gate, and I turned back for my coat, and accused went back with me. I got my coat and went away. Accused took the saddle off his home and went into the house. Accused and Mrs Coe had been speaking together in Maori for a pretty good time. It was showery during this time, and accused had no overcoat. By Mr O'Neill : The reason why I told Appleyard that Mrs Coe would knife him was because I had heard that another man had tried the same trick, and she had nearly cut bis hand off with a knife. I went to Te Rore with the meat, and when I i returned at about half-past 12, the accused | was still there. William Jones, constable at Alexandra, sworn, deposed :— I know Daniel Coe. On receiving his report of the assault on his wife, I accompanied him to his house at Paterangi and questioned Mrs Coe. She showed me a mark on her left knee about IJin. long and to 4in. broad. It appeared to be a fresh scratch or scrape. It might have been caused by a finger or nail. There was a red mark on her right side, and there was an impression like as if done by a person's hand. There must have been considerable pressure to leave those marks. I arrested the accused for indecent assault on Mrs Coe at Paterangi. By Mr O'N«ill : I know nothing against accused's character. The Bench committed the accused for trial at the next sittings of the Supreme Court, allowing bail, the prisoner in the sum of £100, and two securities of £30 each. Accused was subsequently bailed out.

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