GIRL ASSAULTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 19, 24 January 1939, Page 17

GIRL ASSAULTED.

ON WAY HOME AFTER DANCE. . MARRIED MAN IMPRISONED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. Screams at 3.40 a.m. yesterday brought Constable Harvey in a quickly-summoned taxi to the rescue of a girl returning home from a dance. The affair resulted in the appearance °f Arthur Vincent Chick, a process worker, before Mr. J. L. Stout, to-day on a charge of assault, and sentence of two months imprisonment was imposed. The girl told, the police that as she was on her way home defendant, with whom she had danced on occasions, but whose name she did not know, met her and walked along the street with her. He threw her down and tried to force his attentions upon her. There was a struggle, and defendant ran away when a taxi-driver and the constable came along. The police accepted the statement of accused, who was under the influence of liquor at the time, that he had a clear record, apart from the present offence, but said accused was fortunate he was not charged with a more serious offence. Accused expressed regret over the affair, saying he was a married man with a family to keep. On a charge of drunkenness he was convicted and dhtlwifii.