SERIOUS OFFENCE.
GIRL ATTACKED ON ROAD. MAORI FOUND GUILTY. AUCKLAND, Thursday. In the Supreme Court, Patrick Karnerl, a half-caste Maori, aged 26 years, was charged with attempted rape, Indecent assault, assault so as to cause actual bodily harm, and assault, on a European girl 18 years of age. The Crown Prosecutor, outlined the girl’s allegations of having been struck off her bicycle and violently assaulted by acoused. Karneri’s explanation was that the affair was a pure acoident arising out of a collision between two bicycles. The jury found Karnerl not guilty of attempted rape, but guilty of indecent assault. The prisoner was remanded for sentence.
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Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18777, 27 October 1932, Page 7
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105SERIOUS OFFENCE. Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18777, 27 October 1932, Page 7
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