CHARGE OF ASSAULT
SENTENCE OF THREE YEARS’ DETENTION (United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, October 27. John Stuart Jarman, who pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court to a charge of assault today, was sentenced to three years’ detention in the Borstal Institution by Mr Justice Northcroft. Mr C. S. Thomas, for Jarman, said the prisoner suffered from dual personality. With another young man he converted a car, in which he found a bottle of chloroform and Jarman tried it out on the first passer-by. The Judge said the present offence was a breach of Jarman’s probation order in that he was ordered not to drive cars. He had stolen the car and attacked a young woman with chloroform—an exceedingly dangerous substance in unskilled hands. Further leniency might not only encourage further criminality, but might constitute a danger to the public. Alexander James Blackburn, who was found guilty of negligent driving causing death, with a strong recommendation to mercy, was fined £25 and his licence was cancelled for three years.
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Southland Times, Issue 23651, 28 October 1938, Page 8
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