WOMAN KICKED
"DRUNKEN WASTER” BIPRISONED [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN. June 23. "This was a brutal unprovoked assault, by a man best described as a drunken waster.” said Chief-Detective Young, when Stanley Bathurst Work ing. 25. pleaded guilty to assaulting Sarah Caura McKinnon. The police stated that Worlding was married, but was separated from his wife. Recently, lie had been living with another woman, near Portobello, and was on sustenance. He went on a drinking bout, and the woman left j him. He called at the house of Mr. *
and Mrs. McKinnon, anil commenced using filthy language. When the door was shut in his face, he broke in, and kicked Mrs. McKinnon on the breast and abdomen, so that she vomited blood for some time after. He was violently drunk when arrested. Remarking that there was no mitigating factor, the Magistrate indicted a sentence of two months’ imprisonment.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 June 1937, Page 2
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