BRUTAL ASSAULT
FATHER GETS GAOL SENTENIE.
(per press As&duatiortr— Copyright.)
TIMARY, October 16.
Described by the *. P6lice Inspector and the Child-Welfare Officer, a s the worst case in their experience,- James Hardy Smith, a labourer, was sentenced to the maximum of, six,months’ imprisonment for a brutal 'assault on his son, aged 10. years. Tlje evidence disclosed that the boy had been cruelly marked as the result of. a. thrashing, his injuries having to' be attended to at the hospital.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1933, Page 5
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79BRUTAL ASSAULT Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1933, Page 5
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