PRISON FOR ASSAULT

Evening Star, Issue 25301, 9 October 1944, Page 4

PRISON FOR ASSAULT

DR FALCONER'S ASSAILANT SENTENCED Appearing before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., in the Police Court this morning on a charge of having assaulted Murray Alexander Falconer, a medical practitioner, George Clements, a soldier, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment. The matter had been adjourned from Friday by the magistrate in order that inquiries might be made concerning a remark alleged to have been passed by Dr Falconer to the accused on the occasion of the assault. Dr Falconer, in evidence, denied having used the expression " You are a poor specimen " to the accused. Witness said that he was standing waiting for the Stuart street car when a party of five or six men appeared, and one of them remarked, " Look at the wop," which witness presumed meant an Italian. He v took it they were referring to him. Accused then came forward and asked him where he was going and other questions, and witness had replied, " Don't yon think you have had enough drink?" and on the accused attempting to interfere with the books he was carrying, moved away. Thereupon accused had assaulted him. To the magistrate, witness said that there were a dozen to 20 people standing near by, but nobody attempted to interfere when the assault occurred. Accused, to the Bench, declared that he did not know any of the*other five or six men mentioned. The Magistrate, reiterating his remark that the accused had committed a brutal, unprovoked assault and was a disgrace to the King's uniform, sentenced him to two months' imprisonment.