“DRUNKEN BLACKGUARDS’’
INTERFERENCE WITH WOMEN SALUTARY SENTENCE IMPOSED (Per Press Association.) HAMILTON, June 2. ‘ ‘ Tho molestation of young women by half drunken young blackguards is not to be tolerated,” said Air. Wyvern Wilson, in sentencing a young man, Leo Patrick Crosby, on two charges cf assaulting a couple of young ladies, in. the Hamilton Court to-day. The police stated that accused seized one of the young women, and attempted to kiss her, and struck the other a violent blow when she came to the assistance of her companion. Accused, who said he had been drinking, and pleaded ignorance of the occurence, was sentenced to seven days on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19580, 3 June 1926, Page 7
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