HARD LABOUR.
Per Press Association. HAMILTON, Jan. 24. Discovered after living eighteen months as man and wife with his former employer's daughter, Raymond Jack Vernon Elliott, aged 26, a motor mechanic, of Hamilton, was charged with abduction before Mr S. L. Paterson at the Magistrate’s Court this afternoon and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour. As the result of a friendship the daughter left homo with accused to avoid trouble from her parents. She was 164 years old and a child was born in March. 1936, when the pair were living as man and wife at Wailii. Accused desired to marry her following a divorce from his present wife, from whom he is separated. “It is a serious offence to take a young girl without the authority of her parents. It is in your favour that you did not abandon her, but chose to maintain her well. For that reason your sentence will be lighter than it would otherwise be,” said Mr Paterson.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 48, 25 January 1938, Page 12
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165HARD LABOUR. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 48, 25 January 1938, Page 12
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