STRUCK WITH HAMPER
SHE REFUSED MANAGE [Per United Press Association.! AUCKLAND. September 15. Milroy Thomas Smillie, aged twenty* three, was charged with assaulting Sophia Shephard on September 7 so as to cause actual bodily harm, and was committed for trial on hail of £2OO. Complainant said she married Thomas Shephard eighteen months ago at Wellington, and went with her husband, who was a vaudeville artist, to South Africa. She left him, and subsequently met accused, who was fifth engineer on the Maheno, on tho voyage from Sydney to Wellington. She subsequently corresponded with him. On September 2 Smillie called on he# and offered marriage. She declined; ho persisted, ami on September 7 he got into a temper, and struck her on the head with a hammer. She thought it was an accident. He had a sheath knife in his hand.
Accused, in a statement to the police, had admitted striking complainant, but said ho did not intend to kill her. Accused reserved his defence.
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Evening Star, Issue 19662, 15 September 1927, Page 9
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164STRUCK WITH HAMPER Evening Star, Issue 19662, 15 September 1927, Page 9
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