MAN’S STRANGE ACT
Injured Sleeping Child CASE FOR OBSERVATION By Telegraph.—Press Association Dunedin, November 19. A young man, Stanley Redvers Buller, appeared in the Police Court this morning charged with causing actual bodily harm to Maureen Joan Hall, aged six. The accused, it appeared, rented a room in the house of the child’s parents on the evening of October 16. When the child was asleep in bed he entered her room and struck her on the head with a eider bottle, causing a compound fracture of the skull, from which she only recovered after two operations. Buller then wandered over the hills, telephoned the police, and went to the central station and made a statement. He was on good terms with the father, mother and child.
Buller pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence, the court directing that he be kept under medical observation.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 48, 20 November 1930, Page 13
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