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FILM INDIA
October 1940
Miss Buckingham then alleged certain conduct on the part of Kelly, who when she got to her feet again, offered her a needle and thread to repair her damaged frock and disappeared upstairs.
He came down with Vera Gregory, who remarked. "I hear you have been having a rough time, Thelma."
"KeHy"; Miss Buckingham went on to say, "then drove me to my sister's place four miles away, and next day I returned to my own home at Wey bridge.
''When I went to work, however, they sent me home again because 1 was ill."
Cross-examined by Mr. Bernard Gillis, for the defence Miss Buckingham agreed that she did not make an immediate complaint to anyone. She denied that what happened was with her consent.
A "SUSPICIOUS LOOK"
Miss Vera Gregory, the brunette, of Long-Lane, Hillington, admitted that she "had a lot to drink" in
Kelly's house, went to sleep 5 and did not know what happened in the room.
When she awoke about half ar. hour atfer midnight Kelly was in the bedroom with her alone.
"I noticed," said Miss Gregory, 'that Kelly had a very suspicious Icok on '-.is face, and downstairs later saw that Thelma's lip was swollen."
Mrs. Buckingham, mother of Thelma, described bruises which she saw on her daughter's face back, arms, neck, and chest, and scratches on her legs, after she had been sent home from work.
Mrs. Buckingham and her husband immediately went to see Kelly, who showed fight after Mr. Buckingham had struck him on the jaw.
"Later" added Mrs. Buckingham, "Kellv ;aid that Thelma was quite ail right."
Mr. Edward Buckingham, father of the girl, gave evidence that after
the fight and while awaiting the arrival of police Kelly remarked: "This has been a lesson to me. ] will never have anything to do with another girl as long as I live. 1 admire you for what you have done."
Folowing medical evidence to the effect that the girl had been interfered with. Dept. Insp. J. Smith said that after arrest, Kelly wrote down a statement, which contained these passages: —
"We kissed and cuddled. . . .Both of us fell down, and there was a
brief struggle I realized I was
wrong in my judgment. .. .1 had been drinking a lot, and am sorry for what has happened, and apologise for any inconvenience caused to her parents."
Kelly, in the witness-box, denied that he improperly assaulted Miss Buckingham, and maintained his belief that what took place was with the girl's consent.
Kelly was sentenced as stated.