AN ANGRY FATHER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 264, 7 November 1936, Page 10

AN ANGRY FATHER

DAUGHTER THRASHED SCENE IN AUCKLAND STREET. I Per Press Association) AUCKLAND, Nov. 6. Arrested in Queen Street at 6 o'clock last night after he had thrashed his 18-year-old daughter, Duncan Alexander Calderwood, aged 43, was charged at the Police Court to-day with assault and behaving in a disorderly manner. Ho pleaded guilty under extreme provocation. Sub-inspector Fox said that Calderwood got out of a motor truck in Queen Street and thrashed the girl with a length of fourply rope. He did not do much harm. The daughter had not been stopping at home The father seemingly received some information of her way of living. The father dragged the girl across the street by the wrists and thrashed her. She was crying, and finally with the assistance of his wife, who is her stepmother, the girl was bundled into the cab of the lorry. A man stood in front of the lorry to prevent it from moving, and called a constable, who witnessed the thrashing. Counsel for Calderwood said that the girl had been out of control. Her father yesterday discovered that she was not working at the place where she said she was.

Mr. Wyvern Wilson, after perusing the list, said that the father himself had been convicted of theft and breaking and entering, which had not been a good influence for the girl. The only thing which saved him from going to prison was the fact that the thrashing was not severe. It was a disgraceful loss of self control by a man who was the father of children. He was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months.

Replying to the magistrate, the police said that the girl was yesterdayhanded over to the Salvation Army, and the police would not lose sight of her until something had been arranged.