YOUNG WOMAN FINED FOR ASSAULT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3724, 1 December 1927, Page 3

YOUNG WOMAN FINED FOR ASSAULT.

RESULT OF JEALOUSY. Christchurch, November 29. 'Some excitement was provided at a Papanui dance hall recently when a young woman seized a table knife and adopted the conventional attitude for using such weapons effectively towards an alleged former hero of her dreams. She collapsed after the hearing to-day of an assault charge against her before Mr. E. (D. Mosley, S.M., who fined her £2 and costs. The girl, Gladys Victoria Carpenter, aged 21, pleaded guilty to assaulting Lancelot John Sneddon on November 5. Senior-Sergeant J. Fitzpatrick said that on November 5 there was a dance at a hall in Papanui which the girl attended. There was a young man there named Sneddon. Apparently defendant had kept company with this young man and for some reason or another they parted, and he was now keeping company with another young woman. Provoked for some reason at the dance, the girl obtained a table knife and rushed at Sneddon, holding the knife in the air. Just in time she was stopped from delivering a blow. She admitted frankly that it was her intention to do him harm with a view to getting revenge. She did not say what the reason was, but probably jealousy had something to do with it. Mr. Hobbs, for defendant, said Sneddon had treated the girl very badly, and she bore him a grudge. ' The Magistrate told the girl that she would have to learn to control herself. He fined her £2, in default seven days’ imprisonment. The girl had to be assisted from the Court.