SIX WEEKS’ GAOL FOR REJECTED LOVER

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 130, 23 August 1927, Page 16

SIX WEEKS’ GAOL FOR REJECTED LOVER

ASSAULTED GIRL’S FATHER Press Association. NAPIER, Monday. “T WANT you, as an EnglishJL man, to understand that this sort of thing is not permitted in New Zealand,” said Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., to a young Englishman, Peter Carwardine, who pleaded not guilty in the Napier Police Court to-day to a charge of assault on William Lawson, and guilty to a charge of assaulting Mavis Lawson. Accused, according to the evidence, persisted in unwelcome attentions to Mavis Lawson, and the assault in her case consisted of grasping the girl by the wrist. One morning the father followed his daughter, and when she was accosted by accused the father approached, and remonstrated, whereupon Carwardine assaulted Lawson, inflicting injuries, including 'the fracturing of two ribs. It was stated that accused came to New Zealand last year, and had since been employed in various places. He was now looking for work in Napier. The police knew nothing against him prior to the present charges. “I am glad I have heard all this in your favour, but this does not excuse you for wanton and unprovoked assault upon a man who is old enough to be your father,” said the magistrate, in sentencing the accused to six weeks’ imprisonment on the first charge, and binding him over to keep the peace on his own recognisance of £SO on the second charge.