"MOST BRUTAL ASSAULT”

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 82, 7 April 1938, Page 8

"MOST BRUTAL ASSAULT”

Chemist Sentenced to Two Months’ Imprisonment ATTACK ON CRIPPLE Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, April 5. Sentenced ’o rwe months’ imprisonmnent, Edward H .nry Gold’ng, ased 35, rchemist, left the dock in the Magistrate's Court to-day after he had heard a sharp rebuke by the Magistrate, Mr F. K. Hunt, for “u most brutal assault” on a man who w*.s crippled in one leg. The incident occurred in a boardinghouse disturbance at Freeman’s Bay last night. Golding was charged with assaulting William Eric Campbell, and he pleaded guilty. Campbell, who is a farmer residing at the boarding-house, said he heard a woman calling out, apparently in distress, and he also heard several bumps. Later Golding entered witness’s room and kicked him in the stomach and then in the face. “My nose is broken,” the witness told the Magistrate. “I have never spoken to him before and never given him any provocation.” The boarding-house proprietor said he saw Golding in a most extraordinary state, apparently searching for the woman who had called out. A constable gave evidence that Golding smelt of liquor but was not drunk. The Magistrate: The man does not try to control himself. Here is a most brutal assault on an inoffensive man who is a cripple. He kicks him for no reason whatever.