Brutal Assailant Gaoled

NZ Truth, Issue 1273, 24 April 1930, Page 6

Brutal Assailant Gaoled

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Wellington. Representative.) WILLIAM ARTHUR VIVIAN, a married man with two children, may not have known what prompted him to get out of his lorry and knock an unoffending girl into the gutter, but that did not weigh much with Mr. T. B. McNeil, S.M., when he' sentenced him to six months' imprisonment oh Monday last. l "I regard this as an exceptionally bad case of assault,' said the magistrate: The victim of the assault was still m bed recovering from her injuries, when Vivian appeared m court. The girl was standing on the edge of a street m Petone when Vivian drove up to. her m his lorry and jumped out. Then, for no apparent reason, he assaulted her. She was badly hit about the face and body, and finally knocked into the gutter. Vivian pre.- . vented her screaming by the simple expedient of placing his hand over her mouth. Eventually' she did get free, however, and shouted for help, while Vivian made to get awfay. ,' ' . "I don't know what happened," stated Vivian, when asked if he had anything to say. ' , Vivian had not been before the court previously,, and except for the fact that he was a deserter from the Royal Navy the police had nothing against him. IIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIiniIIUIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIHIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIim