BRUTAL ASSAULT
IMPRISONMENT IMPOSED By Telegraph—Press Association DUNEDIN, June 23. “This was a brutal, unprovoked assault by a man best described as a ‘drunken waster’,” said Chief-Detective Young, when Stanley Bathurst Worling (25), pleaded guilty to assaulting Sarah Laura McKinnon. The police stated that Worling was separated from his wife. Recently he had been living with another woman near Portobello, and was on sustenance. He went on a drinking bout, and the woman left him. He called at the house of Mr and Mrs McKinnon, and commenced using filthy language. When the door was shut in his face he broke in, and kicked Mrs McKinnon on the breast and abdomen, so that she vomited blood for some time after. He was violently drunk when arrested. Remarking that there was no mitigating factor, the Magistrate inflicted a sentence of two months’ imprisonment.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20762, 24 June 1937, Page 11
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