WOMAN’S ASSAULT ON SHOPKEEPER
Lower Hutt Incident
EXPLAINED TO POLICE AS SUDDEN IMPULSE
"An unprovoked assault, of this kind cannot be tolerated,” said Mr. _A. M. Moulding. S.M., in the Magistrates Court. Petone, yesterday when lining Manilla Raugiwheau, a young Maori woman. £3 tor assaulting Gertrude Gillies, shopkeeper, Lttdlnn? Crescent, Gower Hutt. •Senior-Sergeant H. C. D. Wade said that on August 19 Mrs. Gillies was assaulted and Rangiwhetu was suspected. Interviewed a few days later she admitted the assault. Her explanation was that she went into the shop to buy some apples and while Mrs. Gillies was stooping to get these a sudden impulse came over her to strike Mrs. Gillies. She did so, with what sort of instrument she did not know. Mrs. Gillies had to have two stitches in her head. “I’ve nothing to say," said Rangi-
whetu. The magistrate : _ Did you, ever have words with Mrs. Gillies?. .“No.” Rangiwhetu was ordered to pay medical expenses.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 288, 1 September 1938, Page 16
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