LESSON FOR JEALOUS MAN

Grey River Argus, 11 October 1949, Page 7

LESSON FOR JEALOUS MAN

AUCKLAND, October 10

A young man who assaulted his sweetheart in a fit of jealousy found himself before the Police Court today. The girl who laid the charge to “teach him a lesson” regretted her decision but found it too late to have the charge dropped. She’ said she was willing to marry the man tomorrow.

The man charged was lan James Robertson, aged 23, a traveller. The police said that he had been going with a probationer nurse for eight months. At 3.30 on the morning of Octobei’ 2 she found Robertson lying on her bed at the nurses’ home. She ordered him out, but he jumped up and slapped her face. She fell, bumping her head against the wall. He grabbed her by the throat, dragging her about 15 feet along a passage and out of the home where she managed to escape and find help. She suffered a bruised knee and throat. The girl had given Robertson the “cold shoulder” in August, said the police. Defence counsel, in requesting leniency, said that the girl was extremely attractive, and Robertson was jealous of the attentions of other men. Robertson attended a reunion, took too much drink, and decided to visit the girl, but fell asleep on her bed while awaiting her. Mr S. L. Robertson, S.M., in sentencing Robertson to on e month's imprisonment, said: “There are far too many assaults by young men on young women and the courts must act as a deterrent. It is incidents like these that result in murders”.