ATTACK ON SWEETHEART
REMARKABLE ADDRESS SYDNEY, May 7. When Ralph Augustus Wat'Hng, 29, a laborer, appeared at the Quarter .Sessions to-day, after he had pleaded'guilty to'a charge of having maliciously wounded his former sweetheart, Rita JJavies, by cutting a. i iliroat with a razor, his counsel sum to the judge:—"lf you send the accused to gaol, even to a prison farm, ho will bo transformed from a Christian man into a devil on earth." Counsel added that in the six years accused had been in Australia, he had been engaged in missionary work, and that it he had to associate with
vile people in gaol he would be ruined body and soul. , VVatling was remanded until Wednesday for sentence.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17526, 22 July 1931, Page 12
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119ATTACK ON SWEETHEART Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17526, 22 July 1931, Page 12
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