UNUSUAL ASSAULT CASE
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, September. 28., 'An unusual assault case was disposed of in the' Police Court to-day, when Arthur Jardine Lockio was sentenced to two months' imprisonment for assaulting Mrs. Usherwood, about 70 years of age, on the night of September 15. Lockie caught Mrs. Usherwood by the throat, and threw her down, severely bruising her. There was no suggestion of indecency. The case for the defence was that accused had had two orthree whiskies on an empty stomach, and remembered nothing more until nest morning, when he woke in..the police,cell. Further evidence, however, showed that accused had at least five whiskies, and was very drunk. The Magistrate described the assaultas a very bad one.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2580, 30 September 1915, Page 9
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119UNUSUAL ASSAULT CASE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2580, 30 September 1915, Page 9
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