SAVAGE ASSAULT

Evening Star, Issue 21637, 5 February 1934, Page 1

SAVAGE ASSAULT

GAOL PENALTY l Per United Press Association.! WELLINGTON, February 3. James Allen O’Malley, aged twenty-* six, a labourer, appeared before Mr Stillwell, S.M., for sentence .on a charge of assaulting Edward James Harris. He pleaded guilty. Harris, who is a restaurant proprietor, had some trouble with O’Malley, who had been somewhat offensive to Mrs Harris. The police stated that Harris requested him to stop. O’Malley attacked Harris, and some stitches had to be put in Harris’s head. Harris alleged that O’Malley got him down and placed his heel in his eye. From an examination it appeared that the injuries could have been caused in the manner described. O’Malley was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment last Saturday for obtaining credit by fraud. To the magistrate, O’Malley said that he was under the influence of liquor, and was not fully responsible for his actions. He denied turning his heel in Harris’s eye. Mr Stillwell said it was obvious that a brutal assault had been committed. Although it might have been _ dona when under the influence of liquor, there was a degree of savagery about it, and he thought it should be dealt with by the court. A sentence of tw< months’ imprisonment was imposed.