BRUTAL ASSAULT ON WOMAN FRIEND

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 144, 19 June 1931, Page 7

BRUTAL ASSAULT ON WOMAN FRIEND

ACCUSED HAD BEEN WARNED BY POLICE. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 19. John Edwin Jones, aged forty-two, was sentenced by Mr Justice MacGregor to twelve months’ reformative detention for causing actual bodily harm to a young woman with whom he had been friendly. A plea was made that Jones’s action was really that-of a sick man. The Crown Prosecutor said that Jones had been warned twice by a constable and had said that 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. Other Cases. On three charges of indecently assaulting girls, aged between twelve and thirteen, William King, aged sixtyseven, was sentenced to twelve months’ reformative treatment.* Reginald Charles Gordon, aged thirty, on six charges of breaking and entering by day, and theft, was sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment.