BRUTAL ASSAULT.
ATTACK ON A WOMAN
POLICE WARNINGS IGNORED.
TWELVE MONTHS’ DETENTION
(By Telegraph,—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, Friday
John Edwin Jones, aged A2 years, was sentenced by Mr Justice MacGregor to twelve months' reformats e detention for causing actual bodily harm to a woman with whom he had been friendly. ' , A plea was made that Jones’ action was really that of a sick man. The Crown Prosecutor said that Jones iiad been warned twice by a constable, and had said 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. The doctor's report was that Jones was at present mentally unbalanced, probably due to worry and family affairs.
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Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18359, 19 June 1931, Page 8
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