SENTENCE TO PRISON.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 46, 23 January 1939, Page 4

SENTENCE TO PRISON.

A WELLINGTON CASE. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Jan. 23. Screams at twenty minutes to four yesterday brought Constable Harvey in ;i quickly summoned taxi to the rescue of a girl returning home from a dance. I The affair resulted in the appearance of Arthur Vincent Chick, a process worker, before the Magistrate, Air J. L. Stout, on it charge of assault, and lie was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment. The girl told the police that, as she was on her way home, defendant, with whom she had danced on occasions, but whose name she did not know, met Iter and walked along the street with her. He threw her down and tried to force his attentions upon her. There was it struggle, and defendant ran away when the taxi-driver and constable came along. The police accepted the statement of -accused, who was under the influence of liquor at the time, that he had. a clear record apart irom the present offence, but said accused was fortunate that he was not charged with a more serious offence. Accused expressed regret over the affair. He said be was -a married man with a family to keep. On a charge of drunkenness he was convicted and discharged.