SUPREME COURT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 144, 20 June 1931, Page 9

SUPREME COURT

WELLINGTON SESSION [ f* er Fr«s9 Association.] WELLINGTON. Juno 19. John Edwin Jones, aged 42, was sentenced by Judge MacGregor tu .12 5 months’ reformative detention for causmg actual bodily harm to a lady with whom he had been friendly, A plea wa* made that Jones’ action wag reallv that of a sick man. The Crown Prosej cutor said that Jones had been warned I twice by a constable, ana had said that j. ho would not do the lady any harm. f However, ho followed her and brutally t assaulted her, and, had it not been for the timely intervention of two men, she ’ might havo been killed. The doctor’s , report was that Jones was nt present I mentally unbalanced, probably due to . worry and family affairs. On each of the three charges of assaulting girls whoso ages were 12 and 13, William King, aged 67, was ordered 12 months’ reformative detention, the sentences to be concurrent. Reginald Charles Gordon, aged 30. on six charges of breaking and entering by day and theft, was sentenced to 18 months’ gaol, the sentences to be concurrent. John Albert Lawlor (22) for break ing and entering and theft was sentenced to six months’; Leonard Edward Swenson (24) committing mischief by wilfully destroying a motor car with intent to defraud, 12 months' reformative; Douglas Cameron (34), indecent assault on a male two years ago, convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within two years if called upon, subject to the payment of the costs of tho prosecution.