WOMAN SENT TO GAOL
STRIKES MAN WITH BOTTLE
An incident which occurred about 1 o'clock on Sunday morning when a man was 1 struck on the head with a full bottle of beer in an alleyway off Taranaki Street, resulted in the appearance before Mr. W. F. Stilwell, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today of Minnie O'Connor, aged 53, on a charge of assault. She pleaded not guilty, but after evidence had been "heard she was convicted and sentenced to a month's imprisonment Leonard Clifford'Jacobsen, who appeared with his head heavily bandaged, said • that the woman first accosted him, and then a man carrying a bottle of beer came along and asked him for an opener. Witness turned to open the bottle, and received a blow on the head. Constable F. Thompson said that he went to Taranaki Street, and then to Marion Street. He there saw the accused who said she had hit a man on the head with a bottle because he had tried to steal her bag. She was taken to the station. The remains of the bottle'showed that it had been unopened, and had been full of beer. "This woman has had -a varied career, and has been too often before the Court," said Sub-Inspector Dempsey.j
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 154, 28 December 1936, Page 9
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210WOMAN SENT TO GAOL Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 154, 28 December 1936, Page 9
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