BACK AGAIN

NZ Truth, Issue 1215, 14 March 1929, Page 1

BACK AGAIN

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Auckland Rep.) Cha'Mes Henry' Whitehead left Mount Eden prison on license the other day with two months, two weeks, and two days remitted from his sentence of three, years, and the following Saturday he returned to the prison with another five months to serve. THE leniency was apparently not appreciated, lor shortly after h\s release he was back at the prison gates "looking for" a warder whom he had been under m the quarry. Whitehead, however, did not take the plain hint to make himself sparce, for shortly afterwards he waited on the railway line, some distance from the gaol, until the warder, Patrick Johnson, left to catch his train. Johnson said that he was bending to unfasten his overcoat when Whitehead made a "bull dog rush" at him, and hit him two blows on the face. Whitehead questioned Johnson and the witnesses from the dock, and then he went into the witness-box to give his side of the story. "There was certainly an amount of animosity between us," he 4 said. Chief-detective Hammond told the magistrate that accused was liable to a term of two months on the charge of, assault, and the lull penalty was then inflicted. On the charge of breaking the order Mr. Levien changed the sentence to one of three months' imprisonment, five months' altogether.