DUAL PERSONALITY PLEA
WOMAN ATTACKED WITH CHLOROFORM [Pbb United Pbess Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, October 27. John Stuart Jarman, who pleaded guilty to a charge of assault, was today sentenced to three years’ Borstal detention by Mr Justice. Northcroft. Mr C. S. Thomas, for Jarman, said ,the prisoner suffered from dual personality. With another young man he converted a car in which he found a bottle of chloroform, and Jarman tried it out on the first passer-by. The judge said the present offence was a breach of Jarman’s probation order, in that he was ordered not to drive cars. He had stolen a car and attacked a young woman with chloroform—an exceedingly dangerous substance in unskilled hands. Furtherleniency might not only encourage further criminality, but might constitute a danger to the public,, ‘
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19381027.2.66
Bibliographic details
Evening Star, Issue 23099, 27 October 1938, Page 10
Word Count
130DUAL PERSONALITY PLEA Evening Star, Issue 23099, 27 October 1938, Page 10
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in