TWO ASSAULTS ADMITTED
Man Sent To Prison For Three Months (New Zealana Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 3. A Hungarian immigrant, Zolton Beri, aged 25, a painter, was sent to prison for three months by Mr M. B. Scully, S.M., today after pleading guilty to charges of assaulting a young woman in his bedroom yesterday and assaulting a constable who arrived to investigate. The police prosecutor (Mr K. O. Evans) said that the young woman met Beri in a city hotel yesterday and agreed to go to his boardinghouse room with him for a few drinks. When they entered the room Beri locked the door and assaulted her. He tore her clothes and punched her about the face and body while she screamed for help. Mr Evans said that the woman was in the room for a substantial period before her screams were heard and she was able to escape and make her way to the nearest police station. Constable K. M. Jones, who arrested the accused, was himself assaulted when Beri suddenly reached under the mattress, grasped a length of steel tube and attempted to use it as a bludgeon, said Mr Evans.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28835, 4 March 1959, Page 7
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