Girl Uses Scissors as Weapon
AUCKLAND, Nov. 23. A charge of assault vcas admitted by Alita Dargaville, aged 24, a quartercaste Maori labourer, when he appeared before Alr. F. McCarthy, S.AI., yesterday. Senior-Detective J. B. Finlay said that a 15-year-old girl was walking along the lower end of Cook Street, in the 'Freeman 's Bay area, at 11 p.m. on November 18, when Sccused came up to her. She asked him to let her pass, and when he did not do so she made a sweeping blow at his arm with a pair of scissors. Accused was later arrested after he had told the St. John Ambulanee authorities that he had been stabbed. "There have been a number of complaints about girls being molested in this neighbourhood," said Alr. Finlay. "In stabbing Dargaville this girl did no more than she was lawfplly entitled to do to protect herself. I thinlt she is to be admired for acting as she did." Dargaville was convict-ed and sentenced to oue month 's imprisonment with hard labour.
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Chronicle (Levin), 25 November 1949, Page 5
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