SETTLER’S WIFE ASSAULTED

Evening Star, Issue 22820, 1 December 1937, Page 10

SETTLER’S WIFE ASSAULTED

CHARGE AGAINST YOUTH [Feu United Press 1 Association.] DANNEVIRKE, December 1. A youth of 18, Maxwell Taylor, was remanded this morning in the Magistrate’s Court on a charge of having, at Matamau yesterday, assaulted Una May Bernice France, causing actual bodily harm. Mrs France, the wife of a well-known settler, Mr G. France, went into the garden in the afternoon to show Taylor what she wanted him to do in the garden.- While she was bending down she was struck heavily on the head with a piece of pinus insignus about two feet long, and it is alleged that she was held down and struck further heavy blows, her scalp being severely injured and two bones in her left hand also broken. Mrs France, who is now in hospital, was. alone at the time of the attack and frightened the youth into leaving. She then rang for a doctor, who informed the police and Taylor was arrested while cycling to town. He had been employed on the farm only five weeks. The reason for the attack is unknown.