STRANGE ASSAULT CASE
NATURE OF WEAPON A MYSTERY Do.MIM" special Dunedin, December 7. Eric George .Barlow came before Mr. Justice Sim this morning for sentence on a charge of assaulting Alexander Stewart, so as .to cause actual bodily barm. The case had an unusual feature in that no one knew what kind of weapon accused hit Stewart with, nor would accused himself say what it was. He had nothing to say in response to tiie usual question as to why sentence should not be passed upon him. The Crown Prosecutor (Mr. F. B. Adams) said the man had been in a mental hospital and was there for some time. It was about fourteen months since he left there. There appeared to have been some kind of attachment, between him and the man he injured.
His Honour remarked that it seemed to be a mental case The best course would be to place the prisoner under the control of the Prisons Board. Barlow was ordered to be detained for reformative purposes for a term of three vears.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 63, 8 December 1926, Page 10
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176STRANGE ASSAULT CASE Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 63, 8 December 1926, Page 10
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