A VIOLENT YOUTH
MOTHER HELPLESS “You are rather a nasty piece of work, young man,” said Mr R. G. Cobkson, P.M., in Dubbo police court when binding oyer Roy Vivian Yates, ,19, to keep the peace towards his mother for six months. He had been charged with using threatening words towards her. The mother said that when she refused to buy the youth new trousers he cut off the legs of his trousers with scissors and destroyed her dress. •She said her son also said: “I’ve a good mind to run these scissors through you.”
The mother also said that her son would not stay in any work and when he was at home she could not control him. Once he had threatened her with a carving knife, and had smashed a mirror.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12485, 20 October 1938, Page 2
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