GIRL REFUSES DANCE

Taranaki Daily News, 5 January 1935, Page 2

GIRL REFUSES DANCE

STRUCK ON THE CHEEK BY A MAN. COURT IMPOSES A PENALTY. In the Police Court at Lithgow, New South Wales, recently, Charles Dixbn, aged 25, was fined £2 on a charge of unlawfully assaulting Ethel Joyce Hutchinson, Sydney. Miss Hutchinson said she rejected Dixon’s invitation to dance at a social, and when die began dancing with a partner with whom she had an engagement Dixon struck her on. the cheek. She did not know Dixon. Dixon said that when he asked Miss Hutchinson, for a dance she replied, “I’m not dancing.” The next moment he saw her dancing with another man. “I then went up and slapped her face to show her she could not do that to iqe,” Dixon added. “The man with whom she was dancing hit me on the chin. There was a scuffle, and I received a couple of blows.” The presiding justice: No girl is compelled to dance with a stranger ,and a girl only shows her good sense when she refuses to dance with a man who has been drinking. We regard it as a most contemptible assault. .