SENSATION AT DANCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19807, 30 November 1927, Page 14

SENSATION AT DANCE.

GIRL'ARMED WITH KNIFE. STOPPED JUST IN TIME. ASSAULT CHARGE AS SEQUEL. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] CHKISTCHURCH, Tuesdny. A dramatic example of the eternal triangle problem was provided at a Papanui dance hall recently, when a young woman seized a table knife and adopted the conventional attitude for using such weapons effectively toward the former hero of tier dreams. Sho collapsed after the hearing to-day of an assault charge against her, before Mr. E. 1). Moslcy, S.M., who fined her £2 and costs. Tho girl, Gladys Victoria Carpenter, aged 21, pleaded guilty to assaulting Lancelot* John Sneddon, on November 5. Senior-Sergeant J. Fitzpatriek said that on November • 5 there was a dance at a hall in Papanui which tho girl attended. There was a young man there named Sneddon. Apparently defendant had kept company with this young man and for some reason or another they parted, and lie was now keeping company with another young woman. Provoked for some reason at the dance the girl obtained a table knife and rushed at Sneddon, holding the knife in the air. Just in time she was stopped from delivering a blow. She admitted frankly that it was her intention to do him harm, with a view to getting revenge. She did not say what the reason was, but probably jealousy had something to do with it. Mr. Hobbs, for defendant, said Sneddon had treated tho girl very badly and she bore him a grudge. Tlio magistrate told the, girl she would have to learn to control herself. lie fined her £2, in default, seven days' imprisonment. Tho girl had to be assisted from the Court.