PENALTY OF CRIME
—^ — WELLINGTON SUPREME COURT. SENTENCES FOR ASSAULT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 19. John Edwin Jones, aged 42, was sentenced by Mr Justice MacGregor to 12 months’ reformative detention for causing actual bodily harm to a woman with whom ho had been friendly. The plea was made that Jones’ action wasreally that of a sick man. The Crown Prosecutor said Jones had been warned tw'ic.j by a constable and had said he wouid not do the. woman any harm. However, he followed her and brutally assaulted her, and had it not been for the timely intervention j of two men she might have been killed. A doctor’s report was that Jones was at present mentallv unbalanced, probably due to worry and family affairs. On each of three charges of indecently assaulting girls aged 12 and 13, William King, aged 07, was sentenced to 12 months’ reformative detention, sentences to be concurrent. Reginald Chas. Gordon, aged 30, on six charges of breaking and entering by day and theft, was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment, sentences to bo concurrent.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 20 June 1931, Page 5
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