ASSAULT ON WOMAN
ATTEMPT TO STEAL PURSE ! YOUNG MAN IMPRISONED [BT TELEGRAM! —press association! CHRISTCHURCH. Monday An assault on a woman aged 80 and {in attempt to steal her bag resulted in a term of six months' gaol being imposed 011 John Henry Sowell Nisbet, aged 24, of no fixed abode, when he appeared before Mr. Levvey, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court. Nisbet pleaded guilty to drunkenness, to assaulting Ellen Bowley and to attempting to steal a purse and contents valued at £3 5s from Mrs. Bowley. He was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour on each of the main charges. Senior-Sergeant Calwell said as Mrs. Bowley entered the women's rest room in the Square, Nisbet stepped out and pulled her fur necklet over her face. She cried for help and Nisbet snatched her purse. As Nisbet ran off he was tripped by a man outside and held until the police arrived. Nisbet arrived from New York eighteen months ago. He had no previous convictions in New Zealand.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22434, 2 June 1936, Page 11
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