COWARDLY ASSAULT.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20027, 8 September 1930, Page 4

COWARDLY ASSAULT.

MAGISTRATE'S COMMENT. (PBIB3 ASSOCXATXOV OtMOBAM.) GISBQRNE, September 6. Comment of the most scathing nature was passed by Mr Harper, S.M., in the Police Court this morning, at the conclusion of a case in which' Frederick Cade pleaded not guilty to a charge of aggravated assault on his son aged thirteen. "I am satisfied," said the Magistrate, "that accused committed a cowardly and aggravated assault on this frail bov. There is no excuse whatevei for nis behaviour, and I am satisfied the offence the - boy is supposed to have committed was only trivial. It is evident that the boy, when in the witness box, was in greats rear, and told his story to protect himB /(rrt rom , fu ?" v of his father. The accused is not a man at all. He is nothing but an unmitigated waster who refuses work and lives on t i. aI( L his wife's earno ".u s^ ould kke to sentence Um i£^!?,iji P iJ term of imprisonment where he would have to take his coat off and do some work. The only thing that hn£ / r i 0m U & wife Z™ hospital, and the children would AnnnLl of them." For mm??. admitted to probation fan tfcl ' amJ . an °raer made ror the children to be placed under ®" p ? 1 7 , ®1 0n . °f the Child Welfare umcer for their own protection.