Mouldey Gaoled

NZ Truth, Issue 1183, 2 August 1928, Page 1

Mouldey Gaoled

COME people have a peculiar idea as to what constitutes provocation. Marcus Alfred Stapleton Mouldey is one of them. In the Wellington Supreme Court the other day he told Judge Reed that his unwarranted and brutal assault on a domestic, while she was asleep m bed at Palmerston North recently, was done und.er provocation. Mouldey, who has served a term of imprisonment for a similar offence, asked his honor for another chance to make good. Under questions from the judge it transpired that Mouldey had also been an inmate of Porirua Mental Asylum, Judge Reed, expressing doubt as to whether prisoner was of sound mind when he attacked the nurse. "The circumstances under which you entered the hospital," said his honor, "may have been due to your mental condition. He sentenced Mouldey to three years' imprisonment.