PROBATION FOR ASSAULT.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 188, 9 August 1924, Page 6

PROBATION FOR ASSAULT.

'■ NOT HIS LEGAL WIFE:" REAL HUSBAND IS MT. EDEN. . _ "I -would ask that it be remembered that this man has been in custody awaiting trial for nearly six weeks/ , said !Mr. Singer, when John Edward Jeiiinson stepped into the dock at tit Supreme Court this morning to receive sentence for having assaulted a tfomaa with whom he had gone through the form of marriage. He was found gwtj on this charge, but was found not guilty on a charge o£ assaulting the woman with intent to do oomiy harm. The case for the Crown was;tkt Jenkinson rushed at the woman with » razor, and cut her throat, but not seriously. .. "We have now that the woman is not his legal wife," said Singer. -Since living with this woman, prisoner has been on the verge sn * nervous breakdown. He is a sutterer from shell shock. The woman is tue lawful wife of a man in Mt. Eden_gaoian habitual criminal. There is "° question that when she married Jen kinson in the registry office in 19-1 . said she had not seen her first, hnstoj since 1014, yet, as a matter of fact,» 1910, she had taken proceedings agaffl* him for disobedience of a maintcn *« order. She told Jenkinson after W were living as a married couple. thatt» first child wa, not his. and Jenklfc J had a lot of trouble with the man £ ° whom the woman had P™nonsly *" living:- There could be .little dfluM that all th PS o coupled with perpetual nagging, n led up to the unfortunate J which resulted in his appearance lew th Mr C °J^ti<- e Stringer thought, course would be to place Jf*" 1 probation, so that he would not ' trouble with the woma*. and worfjW under the Probation Officers in this matter. In any «"«. Honor would not have sentenced ton' longer tban six weeks' «*"£"£, There was no indication tJat tn had been drinking. His Honor q agreed wi,h L seemed reasonable to I" atl - r r _ probation for a period of two From the dock ?n,oner ■ * ' ,„„ thai he intended t>. >' r '" c . a m oral apainsl the woman, to Tud "e recharacter a< a man.' '""_' Vmili plied (hat ti... rro* tM °J£|J* give him good advice in that 1