ASSAULT ON AGED WOMAN
YOUNG FARM WORKER FOUND GUILTY [Pea United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, July 20. Charged with attempting to commit rape, a farm labourer, Walter Alfred Thomas Church, aged 20, stood his trial before Mr Justice Fair in the Supreme Court to-day. There were lesser alternative charges of assault with intent to commit rape, assault so as to cause actual bodily harm, indecent assault, and assault. . Mr Meredith said the victim of the assault, Mrs Helen Sim, aged 84, of Karaka. lived in a house near her son’s home. She was accustomed to spend the day there, and to stay at nights at her son’s house. Last Anzac Day, when she was sitting alone in her own home, a young man entered without knocking. He first asked her about a bicycle pump, and then violently assaulted her. She tried to hit him with a hammer, but he took it from her. A doctor would say that both her eyes were badly blackened, and she had two ribs broken, and had various bruises about the body.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty Sentence was deferred.
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Evening Star, Issue 23015, 21 July 1938, Page 22
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186ASSAULT ON AGED WOMAN Evening Star, Issue 23015, 21 July 1938, Page 22
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