VIOLENT ASSAULT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 232, 29 September 1915, Page 7

VIOLENT ASSAULT.

STKANUE AFFAIR IK DOCEDIX. j A Btrangp and &otncwhat iDpsphcable assault case can* before Mr. Widdoweon in the Duwdin Court on Monday. The acruaod nt Arthur Jardine Lockie, who was chanted with aeeaulting Mary Ann XJKhenrood at Si. Kilda on September 15. Mr W.-L. Moore appeared for the afcuied. who «■« on remand, and who pleadfid -guilty." Sub-Inspector Broberg caid that the charge was laid under the Justices of tie Peace Act. The complainant was Mrs a widow, over 70 year* of age. She wae a highly-rwipect«d lady, residing An Queen's Drive, St. Kilda. On the evening of the 15th Last, she had been visituijj her married eon, s-ho lived near by, and left aJooi't 10 o'clock to go home. She noticed a man standing on the footpath, ,s.nd. tin he seemed to be drunk, she began to crpFH tilt* street to avoid him. The man, who proved to be the amiscd, ejunr after her and ctuisrht her by the neck. She fell down and N'reamcd out. She pot uuay. but lie followwl bor again, gripped her by the throat, threw he.r i down, und held Iwr on the ground. Mr Crombii , . a railway employre. liiing near, on hennnj; tlir ocrpaoiß, jumped ont of bed. and. running .nut. found Mrs llghcrI wood on tb'' pTound and aocosed holdinf. j her. Mr Cromhie pulled him off ami pushed him away. Another man uppeareil on thr w-fiK-. and the two of them handed j lj-x-kio over to the police. Different wiitunsi-!. desiribrd the i-onditian of the ao- [ cuvi'.l us ■ mad drunk." "very drunk," j -silly fiom drink." Thrrn wl* no atI t4>mpt at indecrnry. It woe an ejitra ordinary ttirt of assault—an nnd utU'rlv unwarranted attark on nn old lady. If .the had Jiot managed tr> I XTcani acd grt n-sistamr-e he was incliwd to think that acrniajd might have oc<>n there on v. much more wrious charpr. I'revioiißh- nothing had bocn known j ORBJnst the man. thi« occurrence he had liad to he renmnoVd for t«-n days i for incdinaJ trnaLnwiit. wae a clerk lin the D.I.C. The Sub-lnapector eaid he j understood, that it would be Rtatrd by the defence that the man had a I wave , borne an excellent, character. All he could »ey Tvaji that from a man with a good character something very different was expected. If the accuaed, ordinarily epealdag, had a good character, then his crime teas ao much the more serious. Couoee) for the accused said hie dirat was entirely in the dark as u> what had ! happened. The accused ttm a. most respectable man. occupying a good position in the n.I.C. The only explanation wae Hint neriiwd had no; been sleeping well lately. They knew lie had two drinks, and [lOtvsihlv three, on the night in quee tion. About a-qnarter to s«->veii he started to to hnme. and after that he knew absolutely nothing till he woke np in the police cell next morning.

Accused was sentenced to two months' imprisonment.