ASSAULT ON MAORI GIRL.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17953, 24 February 1930, Page 4

ASSAULT ON MAORI GIRL.

ATTACKED BY MAN.

PICKED UP UNCONSCIOUS

Claiming to have been assaulted by a man, a Maori girl, aged 15 years, was picked up unconscious on the main Te Aroha-Paeroa Road, near Mangaiti, on Friday night, at about 3 o’clock. She recovered consciousness shortly after midnight. The victim of the assault was sufficiently recovered yesterday to slate that when she was walking toward Te Aroha, between 5 and 7 p.m., a man dismounted from a bicycle, and clapping his hands over her face, dragged her to a slight depression at Ihe side of the road. Owing to the rough manner in which she was handled she was unable to call for help. She remembered being lifted to the bicycle, on which she was wheeled, but* remembered nothing further until she recovered consciousness at her home. She was unable to describe her assailant-.

POLICE INVESTIGATING

THE GIRL'S STORY

ASSAULTED BY A EUROPEAN

(Special to Times.) TE AROHA, Monday. The native girl who was allegedly assaulted at Mangaiti on Friday avers that she had, when proceeding to Tui pah, where she lived, been met by a young European on a cycle and was assaulted on the Ruakaka Road, rdie did not remember how she got back to the flaxmill, but it is thought the assailant waited until dark before taking the girl back, over a mile and a half to the mill gales. The police are making active enquiries at Mangaiti again this morning. The girl, who is considerably bruised, states she will he able io identify her assailant.