A WOMAN ASSAULTED.
CHARGE AGAINST BROTHER. (Feb 'United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 24. At the Police Court Maurice Burns Ward, aged 37 years, was charged that. on. June 4, he did assault Florence Boulton as to cause actual bodily harm. A medical man stated that he was called to the house where , Boulton (accused’s widowed sister) was lying in a pool of blood, with a fracture of the base of tho skull. Tho ten-year-old son of Mrs Boulton said he saw accused kneeling beside his mother knocking her head on the floor. Mrs Boulton said that when accused cam© home he asked where his wife was. She did not remember receiving tho injuries. Witness did not, answer some of tile Chief Detective’s questions, and subsequently gyve her answers after some hesitation. Questioned regarding the statement made to tho detective, she said she had signed it, but didn’t know what state she was in when she gave it. Accused pleaded not guilty, and reserved his defence. He was committed for trial, bail of £SOO being allowed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19233, 25 July 1924, Page 5
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