A GIRL AND A KNIFE.
YOUNG MAN ATTACKED. INCIDENT AT A DANCE. A case in which a twenty-years-old woman was charged with assaulting a former fiance, Lancelot John Sneddon, on November sth, was heard at the Magistrate's Court yesterday before Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M. The girl, Gladvs Victoria Carpenter, was represented by Mr A. B. Hobbs, and Senior-Sergeant Fitzpatrick conducted the prosecution. The Senior-Sergeant said there was a dance at a hall in Papanui in November sth, which the girl attended in company with a young man. At the dance the couple met Sneddon, with whom the accused had for some time previously kept company. Provoked for some reason or another at the dance, the girl seized a table knife and rushed at Sneddon. She held the knife in the air ready to stab, but she was stopped in time. The girl had frankly admitted totne police that she had attacked Sneddon with the intention of doing him harm as a means of obtaining revenge. Mr Hobbs told the Court that tne girl bore Sneddon a grudge, as he hart treated her very badly. When she agreed to go to the dance with the otner voung man she asked if Sneddon would be there, and was told that he would
not. When they arrived, the girl found Sneddon there. The girl immediately started to go home, but as she reached the door someone threw a bag of sugar into the hall, hitting Sneddon on the head. "Sneddon came rushing out of the hall," said counsel, "saw the girl, and asked her if she had thrown it. He said that if she had he would smash her. In the heat of the moment the girl lost her head, seized a knife which was on a table, and rushed at Sneddon." He suggested that the case might be met by a small fine. "You'll have to learn to control yourself," said the Magistrate, addressing the accused. "If you get up to these capers again, you'll get into serious trouble. You are fined £2 and costs, in default seven days' imprisonment." The girl then collapsed, and had to be helped from the. Court.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19171, 30 November 1927, Page 5
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