SUITOR'S WRATH

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22444, 13 June 1936, Page 18

SUITOR'S WRATH

TIIIiEE PEOPLE STKIJCK

WOMAN SENT TO HOSPITAL POLICE COURT SEQUEL A plea of guilty to a charge of assaulting John James Fleet was entered by Arthur William Worster, a skin grader, in the Police Court yesterday, but.be denied two other charges of assaulting Ruby Murray and Olive Miller. It was stated that on the evening of May 28 accused called at a house in Vincent Street, where Mrs. Miller was staying, spoke to her at the door and then returned an hour later, when the assaults were alleged to have occurred. A chair was said to have been broken by being thrown at Fleet, who caught it on another chair. Mrs. Ruby Murray said that she kept an apartment house at which Mrs. Miller stayed. Mrs. Miller at one time kept company with accused, but was now friendly with a man named Fleet. When accused made his second visit to the house on the night of May 28 she told him to wait at the door, but be pushed past her and assaulted her. lie struck her three times, and blackened her eyes and face, with tho result that she had to go to the Auckland Hospital. Mrs. Olive Miller, a divorced woman, said that she formerly kept company

with accused, and when he came earlier in the evening to talk about marriage she would not agree. When he returned, he rushed past her as she opened the door of her room, and made a grab at Fleet. He struck her on the head as she was attempting to pick up Mrs. Murray from tho floor. Evidence was given by a constable that a door was torn off its hinges, a chair broken and furniture "all over the place." There were bloodstains in the kitchen and the hall. Accused in evidence said that when he saw the man there he lost his head. He did not remember striking the women.

"You lost your temper and were going for everybody," said the magistrate, Mr. W. R. McKoan. "You might have killed Mrs. Murray."

Aroused was fined €l, in default 11 days' imprisonment, for assaulting Mrs. Murray, and L'2, or seven days' imprisonment, on eaeli of tho other two charges.