FOUND GUILTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 267, 10 November 1937, Page 22

FOUND GUILTY.

ASSAULT BY DOCTOR.

SLASHED WITH SABRE. I MI WILL KILL YOU" THREAT. | After a midnight struggle on a lonely I country road, a middle-aged doctor, with a sword, a knife and a gun in his car, visited a hotel and slashed with a sabre at a 23-vear-old waiter. This was stated at Blandford (Dorset) when Dr. Charles Carrick Brewis, of Mappowder, near Dorchester, was found guilty of assaulting Edgar Kenneth Geale, and remanded in custody. The chairman said Brewis would be under observation while in prison. To this Brewis replied: "But 1 have to go to the British Medical Association to-night." Sword in Court. During the hearing Brewis asked if the magistrate would like to see the sabre. Taking it out of a brown paper parcel, he unsheathed it. I "Jt is a Japanese sword. It has been hanging on my wall four years." he said. Geale'* solicitor, Mr. Chievelev Williams, said that on August l.» Brewis dined at a Blandford hotel. Later, at 11.30, Geale saw Brewis at the wheel of his oar, using bad language. As Brewis w - as apparently unfit to drive, Geale eventually put his bicycle in the back of the car and drove Brewis towards his home.

Knife Threat. After five mile* Brewis took out a pocket knife. He told Geale he had been "carving human bodies 25 years and was now carving up dogs with this knife." Brewis demanded that Geale should stop the car. They exchanged seats, and after 50 yards Brewis drove into the bank. Turning to free the car, Geale was bending down when he heard Brewis say he was "going to kill him." He found Brewis grasping a starting handle, which he swung at (Jeale's head. "Geale closed with Brewia to save himself, overpowered him, and, being frightened, left him there," said Mr. Williams. Next day Brewis arrived at the hotel, saying to Geale. "You are the little —— who nearly killed me la*t night. Now I am going to kill you." He produced a pocket knife and then a sabre. He slashed at Geale, wlio side-stepped, and the sabre was eml>edded in a pillar of the porch. Brewis struck the post again before the head waiter told him to stop.

"Carry Me." Denying the accusation and producing a bloodstained shirt, Brewis declared: "I am going to charge Geale with attempted murder." After several exchanges with the magistrates, during which he declared: "You must hear my case. I will keep you here to seven o'clock," Brewis was remanded. Saying "You must carry me," he was taken from court by four policemen. The chairman had told him: "It is only a mercy of God you are not on a I most serious charge."