STRUCK A SLEEPING CHILD WITH BOTTLE.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE HEARD IN DUNEDIN. Per Press Association DUNEDIN, November 19. A young man, Stanley Redvers Buffer, appeared in the Police Court this morning, charged with causing actual bodily- harm to Maureen Joan Hall, aged six. Accused rented a room in the child’s parents’ house. On the evening of October 16, when the child was asleep in bed, he entered her room and struck her on the head with a cider bottle, causing a compound fracture of the skull, from which she recovered only after two operations. According to the evidence, the accused, whp was on good terms with the father, mother and child, then wandered over the hill and telephoned to the police what he had done. He went to the central station and made a statement. He pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence, the Court directing that he be kept under medical observation.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19231, 19 November 1930, Page 6
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