BRUTAL ASSAULT.
WOMAN MIGHT HAVE BEEN KILLED. WELLINGTON MAN SENTENCED. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") WELLINGTON, this day. John Edwin Jones, aged 42, was to-day sentenced by Judge MacGregor to twelve months' reformative detention for causing actual bodily harm to a lady with whom he had been friendly. A plea was made that Jones' action was really that of a sick man. The Crown Prosecutor said Jones had been warned twice by a constable, and had eaid he would not do the lady any harm. However, he followed her and brutally assaulted her, and, had it not been for the timely intervention of two men, she might have been killed. The doctor's report was that Jones was at present mentally unbalanced, probably due to worry and family affairs.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 143, 19 June 1931, Page 8
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