POLICE COURT
% AUCKLAND CASES
(Per Press Association) Auckland, Aug. 9 At the Police Court this morning the wife of Peter Alexander £1 msley applied for maintenance and a guardianship order. but her counsel abandoned both, and by the consent of counsel for accused agreed to a separation order merely. Harold James Henry Smith, aged 38, was charged with the theft of postal orders amounting to £6 13/, the property of the Postmas-ter-General. He was remanded on bail of £IOO. In the Supreme Court Mr Justice Herdman sentenced _ Arthur Collins, aged ,26, to two years’ hard labour for assault on a young woman, thereby causing actual bodily harm. His Honour said that "if a girl goes to a public dance with a man she does not know, she is a foolish girl, when she sits down with the man among the trees at midnight she is still more foolish, but this does not excuse the prisoner for his action in striking hgr on the face, breaking her glasses and blackening both her eyes. His Honour declined to state the case for appeal on the question of whether it had been clearly put to the jury that there might have been a mistake in the identification of accused.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVII, Issue 10147, 9 August 1929, Page 3
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