CHARGE OF ASSAULT
YOUTH SENT TO BORSTAL By Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, October 27. John Stuart Jarman, who pleaded guilty to a charge of assault to-day, was sentenced to three years’ Borstal detention by Mr Justice Northcroft. Mr C. S. Thomas, for Jarman, said the prisoner suffered a 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 a 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.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21179, 28 October 1938, Page 13
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130CHARGE OF ASSAULT Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21179, 28 October 1938, Page 13
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