CHASTISED GIRL TYPIST.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 15, 17 January 1914, Page 17

CHASTISED GIRL TYPIST.

13 MONTHS' HARD LABOUR FOR RUSSIAN EMPLOYER. Joseph Marcus Copelvitz .Tosepbson. a Russian, said to be a director of a cinematograph film company, pleaded guilty at the London Sessions to a common assault upon Violet Sharp, of Paulet Road, Cambenvell, his apprenticed typist, and was sentenced to twelve months' hard. labour, and to be recommended for deportation. The allegation was that tbe defendant punished the girl corporally and made her apologise iv writing and kiss his band for transgressing office rules. For the defence, it was said the prisoner had been brought up with very strong disciplinarian notions, which, of course, we In this country did not approve of. His idea was that no distinction between boys and girls should be made in the matter of corporal punishment. Mr Allan Lawrie, in passing sentence, said it was a very serious thing In this country to behave In that sort of way to girls. Prisoner might have done the girl a great deal of harm. He did not seem to have done so, for the girl did not seem to think it wns indecent. Prisoner had such a power over- her as to rob her of her ordinary sense of dtecency.