WIDOW WOUNDED.

Grey River Argus, 8 December 1928, Page 1 (Supplement)

WIDOW WOUNDED.

MURDEROUS SCENE IN SHOP. SOBBING YOUTH CHARGED. Remarkable evidence was given at Rochester City Police Court, when a youth named George Richard Judge (1/) said to be out of work, of Albert Road, Rochester, was remanded, charged with the attempted murder of an elderly widow, named Emily Parry, wh (> keeps a tobacconist’s and newsagent’s j shop near High Street. Rochester, by striking her on the head with a . chopper. Air J. L. Percival. Town Clerk of Rochester said Judge went into the shop about 11a.m., and asked for a packet of cigarettes. When Mrs Parry turned her back h e struck her with the chopper. She fell down, Judge jumped over the counter, hit her again, and tried to strangle her after pulling her into a back room. A customer entered and Judge served him with cigarettes, placing the [money on the counter. While the cusi tomer was there. Airs Parry staggered j around and got towards the door. I Mr F. C. Stigant a Chatham solic.i- -| tor, was the principal witness. He J said he was. passing the shop when he ’ noticed Airs Parry standing inside the j door. She was'covered in blood down 1 to the waist, and appeared to have a j severe wound on;the forehead. On the floor beside the chair in • which he was sitting was a chopper. 'lf had bloodstains on it, and fresh I ■bloodstains were on the hands of the ! prisoner. ■ There w; re alio bloodstains all over the floor. Witness took hold of i Judge’s boulder and asked him what :he had been doing. Tn a state of I great agistation, he replied: I “I could not get money for myself land my family and I could not get j food, and I was desperate. I suppose 1 wont for a time." The Mayor, Air F. C. A. Matthews, told witness that the Bench admired h had Hcted.

sisted upon the ball being put in as many as eight times i’.ntil it did go into the centre of the scrum. Air Leith said that in nearly every country they had different interpretations of the rules. After the report had been received, Mr Roache, moved that the South African Rugby Board be informed tha x clause 4 of the agreement entered into between the South African Board and the New Zealand team in 1928 was contrary to the laws of the game.

Mr Wylie said that no body of men had any power to alter the laws of the game. They should be careful not to let this 1928 agreement be used as a precedent. Mr Wylie cotended that * the South African Board should be : informed that the agreement had no J effect as it contravened law 10. • On his suggestion Mr Boache agreed to include this* in his motion, aud in i this form the resolution was carried.