BRUTAL ASSAULT

Evening Star, Issue 22682, 23 June 1937, Page 8

BRUTAL ASSAULT

YOUNG MAN'S VICIOUS ATTACK TWO MONTHS’ HARD LABOUR “ This was a brutal and unprovoked assault by a man best described as a drunken waster,” said Ohief-detectivo Young in tho Police Court this morning when Stanley Bathurst Worling (25) appeared to face a charge of assaulting Sarah Laura M’Kinnon. Ho pleaded guilty. Tho Chief detective said that WqrHng was a married man with two children, but was separated from his wife. Recently he had been living with a woman in a crib at Tsaactown, near Portobello. Ho was on sustenance. On Juno 18 he apparently went on a drinking bout and tho woman left the crib, having had trouble with him previously when ho was in that state. When he arrived home and found that she was not there he set out to search for her. Ho called at Mr and Mrs M'Kinnon’s house, and after asking for a cup of ten, immediately commenced to use filthy language. AVlion tho door was shut in his face he attacked it and forced an entrance and then 1 kicked Mrs MTCinnon in the breast and abdomen. She vomited blood for some time after. Worling was violently drunk when he was arrested. Mrs M'Kinnon had to receive medical treatment for her injuries. Although she was still suffering, it did not appear that there would be serious consequences. For the accused, Mr C. J. L. White said that he was married when ho was 18, and, as was perhaps only to be expected, made a hash of things. Domestic troubles arose and his wife left him. His trouble was drink, as his list conclusively showed. He had been drinking beer this day, and it seemed that a bottle of wine had been accidentally broken in the hotel, what was left being poured into his glass. This must have' driven him mad. " Ho had a very confused recollection of what occurred, and was now extremely sorry for what ho had done. His list was certainly not a creditable one, but none of his offences involved violence or dishonesty. Counsel pointed out that Worling had already spent five days in gaol. Mr Bartholomew; This is a case of gross assault without any redeeming or mitigating factors. The accused will bo sentenced to two months’ imprisonment with hard labour.