WOMEN ASSAULTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 139, 13 June 1936, Page 13

WOMEN ASSAULTED.

MAN LOSES HIS TEMPER.

Three charges of assault were preferred against- Arthur W. Worster at the Police Court yesterday. After hearing the evidence Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., imposed fines totalling £8 and allowed a week in wliicli to pay.

The evidence showed that Worster had, up to a few months ago, been keeping company with a woman. He wrote a letter to "her proposing marriage and o<i the night of May 28 went to a house in Vincent Street where she was staying. He was admitted to the house by'the tenant, Mrs. Ruby Murray, and "went into the bedroom of Mrs.- Miller, where lie found a man, John James Fleet: Worster and Fleet got into grips and Mrs. Murray endeavoured to separate them. In the struggle she was struck three times, receiving a black eye and her teeth were damaged to the extent of 10/. Fleet and Mrs. Miller were also assaulted but were not injured

seriously. Accused, who pleaded guilty to assaulting Fleet, but not guilty to assaulting either Mrs. Murray or Mrs. Miller, was convicted on all three charges. For assaulting Mrs Murray hc was fined £4 and on each of the other two charges £2. The Magistrate remarked that he was certain accused had no intention of assaulting anyone when he went to the house but evidently he had lost his temper when he got inside.