ALLEGED ASSAULT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18572, 26 November 1920, Page 4

ALLEGED ASSAULT.

VAUDEVILLE ARTIST CHARGED. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, November 25. When a vaudeville artist, Louis Le Brun, appeared in Court to-day charged with assaulting Airs Ermey, a remand for a week was granted, Senior-Ser-geant Eales remarking that the injured woman would not be out of hospital for a few days. He added that the injuries were severe and the young woman would probably bo disfigured for life.

Afr O. E. Stout, on behalf of accused, asked that bail should be allowed, and this was fixed at ono surety of £3OO, which was forthcoming. So far as can be ascertained at present, Le Brun went to the playhouse to get his stage properties arranged, and Ralph Ermey and his wife (“ Yank and Joan ”) were about the same business, when (Le 81-un is alleged to have savagely assaulted Airs Ermey and to have struck Ermey, too, when he went to his wife’s assistance The young woman’s nose was split and the cartilage torn from the bone, while an artery was broken. She was sent to a private hospital to have these painful injuries attended to. Meantime a constable was summoned and Le Brun -was arrested.

No adequate reason for an assault of the vicious character alleged has yet been given, beyond a statement that Le Brun, an Australian returned soldier, had suffered from shell shock.