COWARDLY ASSAULT
MAN STRIKES A GIRL
REQUEST FOR A DANCE
In the Police Court at Lithgow, New South Wales, recently, Charles Dixon, aged 20, was fined £2 on a charge of unlawfully assaulting Ethel Joyce Hutchinson, of Sydney. Miss Hutchinson said she rejected Dixon's invitation to dance at a social, and when she began dancing with a partner with whom she had an engagement Dixon struck her on the cheek. She did not know Dixon. Dixon said that when he asked Miss Hutchinson for a dance she replied, "I'm not danciug." The next moment he saw her dancing with another man. "I then went up and slapped her face to show her she could not do that to me," Dixon added. "The man with whom she was dancing hit me on the chin. There was a scuffle, and I received a couple of blows." The Presiding Justice: No girl is compelled to dance with a stranger, and a girl only shows her good sense when she refuses to dance with a man who has been drinking. We regard it as a most contemptible assault.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21999, 4 January 1935, Page 12
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184COWARDLY ASSAULT New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21999, 4 January 1935, Page 12
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