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DUNEDIN CRIMES PUNISHED

BRUTAL ASSAULT ON WOMAN. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, June 19. . John Edwin Jones, aged 42, was sentenced by Mr. Justice MacGregor to 12 months’ reformative detention for causing actual bodily harm to a woman with whom he had been friendly. The plea was made that Jones’ action was really that of a sick man. The Crown Prosecutor said Jones had been warned twice by a constable and had said he would not do the woman any harm. However, he followed her and brutally assaulted her, and had. it not been for the timely intervention of two men she might have been killed. A doctor’s report was that Jones was at present mentally unbalanced,. probably due to worry and family affairs. On each of three charges of indecently assaulting girls aged 12 and 13, William King, aged 67, was sentenced to 12 months’ reformative detention, sentences to be concurrent.

Reginald Chas. Gordon, aged 30, on six charges of breaking and entering by day and theft was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment, sentences to be concurrent.

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Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1931, Page 7

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DUNEDIN CRIMES PUNISHED Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1931, Page 7

DUNEDIN CRIMES PUNISHED Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1931, Page 7

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