BRUTAL ASSAULT
-Preas Associa^ion.)
Two JMonths' Gaol for Kicking Woman
(By Teiegraph-
DUNEDIN, Last Nght. "This was a brutal and unprovoked assault by a man best described as a drunken waster," said Chief-Detective Young when Stanley Bathttrst Worljng, aged 25, pleaded guilty to assaulting Sarah Laura McKinnon. The police stated that Worling was married, but separated from his wife. Recently he had been living with another woman near Portobello and was on sustenance. He went on a drinking bout and tho woman left him. He called at the house of Mr. and Mrs. McKinnon and commenced using filthy language. When the door was, shut in his face he broke in and kicked Mrs. McKinnon. on the breast and abdomen, 40 that she vomited blood for some time after. He was violently drunk when arrested. Remarking that there was no mitigating factor, the Magistrate inflicted a sentence of two months' imprisonment.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 135, 24 June 1937, Page 14
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