WOMAN ASSAULTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 292, 9 December 1936, Page 5

WOMAN ASSAULTED.

! IMPRISONMENT FOR SEAMAN. 1 : J.XCIDEXT AT PQXSOXBY- ! Arr«eied by Detective T. W. AJbopp, i a seaman front the ship P»k«l«. -Joseph | j Welsh. 28, gjjjjewed in th« P#!i«e Court ihte jijorwlu" daarged with drunk- , ■ enness and also with assaulting a marj rjed woman- Welsh pleaded guilty to ; both (charges. j Detective-Sergeant McHugh said | Welsh came ashore from Jjf* *blp at tb« i week-end and went on a bout-: j While drunk he went to the house of a 1 married compis in Ponsonby, The bw--2 band and wife were both borne, and j Welsh was given a eup of tea. The next 1 'day Welsn returned to the bouse. He I was still under the influence of lienor. 'The husband vest# awav at work and bis j wife was in bed 531. Welsh walked Into ' her bedroom and sat on the bed. He | offered the woman a drink from -a bottle of beer- but this »be refused. He then | asked her for a kiss and <-be resisted ihlm. Welsh, after ac-tSnjr in a certain j way. then left the bouse, but was arrested later. Asked by Mr, Wvvern Wilson. S.M.. if he bad anything to finy, Welsh replied that he was drunk. "I mmt bare done . | it. but J don't remember it." he added, i]"l have always been decent before. I | bad no intention of insulting tbe lady." | "You are rather fortunate row are not char.zed with inde-eent assault," said the I magistrate, wbo #enteneed Welsh to one j month's imprisonment. He was fined JlO/ for drunkenness. | Detective-Sergeant McHugb said tbe Palteha was due to sail from Auckland job December 14, and be tbe magis--3 irate Jf be would make as w<kr ib*i • Welsh be placed on tbe ship before it j sailed. j "Y-s, I suppose said Mr. Wilson-1 "W« don't want him here."