GUILTY OF ASSAULT.
THREE YEARS IN BORSTAL. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. John Stuart Jarman, who pleaded guilty to a charge of assault, was today sentenced by Mr Justice Northcroft to three years’ Borstal detention.
Mr C. S. Thomas, for Jarman, said that prisoner suffered from dual personality. With another young man ho converted a car in which lie found a bottle of chloroform, and Jarman tried it out on the first passer-by. The Judge said the present offence was a breach of Jarman’s probation order, in that he had been ordered not to drive cars. He had stolen a car and attacked a .young woman with chloroform—an exceedingly dangerous substance in unskilled hands. Further leniency might not only encourage further criminality but might constitute a, danger to the public.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 14, 27 October 1938, Page 6
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