GAOL FOR ASSAULT
INCIDENT IN HOTEL "MOST EXTRAORDINARY CASE" (0.C.) ROTORUA, this day. "A most extraordinary case," commented Detective-Sergeant A. J. White, when Desmond Neilson, alias D. Rogers, farm labourer, aged 27, faced charges of assault ancf using an assumed name in the Rotorua Magistrate's Court, before Mr. W. H. Freeman, S.M., to-day. Accused pleaded guilty.
Detective-Sergeant White stated that Neilson had booked in at an hotel on May 20 under the name of Rogers. At 10.15 p.m. the accused knocked on the door of a woman guest, saying he was a porter with a message. When she opened the door Neilson assaulted her. Struck on the face, the victim screamed. Accused fled, but was seen by a member of the staff and taken to the police station. He said he intended robbery and hoped to get three years in gaol in view of the fact that there was a war on, said Mr. White. It appeared that accused was endeavouring to avoid military service. Possibly a spell of hard work would do him some good. There was no suggestion of insanity.
Defendant, who had nothing to say, was convicted and sentenced to two months' imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to be cumulative.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 123, 27 May 1941, Page 8
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