A Woman's Anger

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 May 1915, Page 3

A Woman's Anger

* • \ I .Marylehoiie Police Conn on tiaturlay \ iolet Dean, ;t young woman of udopeudent means, living at Prince's >i|iiare. Bayfswater, was charged with lissaidting Captain E. Brown Poole, oi' :he 3rd Dorset Hegiment. Tlie prosecutor stated that lie was mine all sick leave from the front. \hout on Friday ©veiling as he vas will king along Queens-road. May.s.vater, he felt a blow on the shoulder. \.s he turned round the prisoner struck it him three or four times with Lis njured arm. She was a complete d ranger to him. and on his asking vhafc she meant she made some remark ihout the British Army, and said that 'lie had licen insulted several times bv lis men. None of the men of his reginent, however, was in Loudon. The prisoner said that her explanation was that she was angry at hoing nsulted Ijy men in uniform. Mr Paul Taylor passed sentence of a mouth's imprisonment in the second livision. Later Mr. C. V. Tfill. solicitor. appealed to the magistrate to review his decision, saving that the prisoner did not realize "the r-„nse-pienccs of her action and very deeplv regretted the position she was in. The magistrate, however, declined to alter the sentence.