VICAR ASSAULTED

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 July 1936, Page 9

VICAR ASSAULTED

CHARGE AGAINST WOMAN. At Stratford, England, recently, magistrates agreed to adjourn indefinitely proceedings instituted by the Rev. Leslie Thomas Prosser Harwood, vicar of St. Luke’s Church, Leyton, against his next-door neighbour, Miss Emily Camp, a middle-aged schoolteacher. At previous hearings it was staled (hat Miss Camp assaulted (he vicar in the street with an umbrella, and then threw a shoe through his dining-room window, making things so unbearable that he was driven from home.

Air Malcolm Lynde, prosecuting, told the magistrates he now had to complain of the attitude of Miss Camp’s mother, which was one rather of trying to justify what her daughter had done. She had remarked to the vicar since he had returned with his wife, "Why don’t you speak the truth? It is cruel, unkind, and not Christian-like.” Air J. J. Sharman, defending, handed to the Bench a report from a hospital specialist on the condition of Aliss Camp, and gave an undertaking that she should attend regularly for treatment. He asked that the summons for assault should be adjourned indefinitely. Mr Lynde: It may be only putting off tho evil day, but the Bench will appreciate the vicar has had a difficult time.

Chairman: Come here at once if there is further trouble.

Air Lynde: That will apply equally Io the mother. Clerk: The mother is not before the Court.

Miss Camp attempted to address the magistrates, but was hurried from the Court by her friends.