TWO MONTHS' GAOL

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 80, 5 April 1938, Page 13

TWO MONTHS' GAOL

ASSAULT ON CRIPPLE

(By Telegraph—Preps, Association.)

AUCKLAND, This Day.

Sentenced to two months' imprisonment, Edward Henry Golding, aged 35, a chemist,..left the dock in the Police Court today after he had heard a sharp rebuke by the Magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt for "a most brutal assault" on a man, who was crippled in one leg. ; The incident occurred in a boardinghouse disturbance' at Freeman's Bay ,last night. Golding was charged with [assaulting William Eric Campbell, and he pleaded guilty: . , ; ' , Campbell, who,is a farmer residing at the boarding-h6use, said he heard a woman calling out, apparently in. distress, and he also heard several bumps. Later Golding entered witnesses room and kicked him in the stomach and then in the face.'"My nose is broken," the witness' told the Magistrate. "I have never spoken to^him before and never given him any provocation." *

The boarding-house proprietor said he saw Golding in a most extraordinary state, apparently searching for the woman who had called out. A constable gave evidence that Golding smelt of liquor but-wasnot drunk.

The Magistrate: The man does not try to control himself. Here is a most brutal assault on an inoffensive man .who is a.cripple. He kicks him for no reason whatever.