GAOL FOR ASSAULT
SOLDIER'S OFFENCE
I A sentence of 14 days" imprisonment :with hard labour was imposed upon Francis Leo Shivnan, a soldier, who appeared before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate's. Court today. He pleaded guilty to assaulting Nan Webb and to wilfully damaging a pane of • glass. Sub-Inspector L. Capp said that at about 4.30 p.m. yesterday the accused 'entered a shop in Willis Street and dejmanded the sum of 10s from a girl.
assistant. He left on being refused, but returned later and again demanded the money. When requested to leave lie rushed behind the counter and struck the manageress, knocking her down, and before leaving the shop he picked up a bell on the counter and threw it in her direction, but it struck the window. "A disturbing feature of the whole incident was 'hat the accused entered
a shop in which there is no way of prote cting the members of the staff. which consisfe of W omen only," said Sub . lnspec tor Capp, who added that Shivnan had previously caused disturbances on t u e Dre mises ?f ir am- Ount of Provocation. He knew 2,, g , , , , The accused was ordered to make §ood the damaged window.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 125, 29 May 1941, Page 10
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205GAOL FOR ASSAULT Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 125, 29 May 1941, Page 10
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