GIRLS TO THE RESCUE

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 454, 11 June 1937, Page 6

GIRLS TO THE RESCUE

STRUGGLE IN WELLINGTON HOUSE

Terrific Fight With Intruder

Press Association—Copyright. Wellington, June 10. The allegation that he was attacked and got down on his back by five of Lee’s daughters was made by John Kennedy, a waterside worker, who pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to a charge of assaulting Henry Lee.' Constable Hughes' rdadi a statement by Kennedy saying Lee and his family were his tenants. The previous day, he alleged, the five daughters attacked him and got him down on his back. Mrs Annie Jane Lee said Kennedy asked to spetak Ito one of her daughters, who was in bed. She pushed him out of the room and: he caught her by the throat. He was screeching and looking dangerous. She screamed and her daughters and her husband joined her. She had a terrific fight. William 'Henry Lee, a pensioner, taid he heard his wife screaming. He went to her assistance but was knocked' down. “He tried to choke me,” she said. “If it had not been for my daughters I would not be here now. They liberated me and I ran to the police station/’ Billy Lee said she had been in bed when Kennedy tried to push hi £ way into the room. He would have killed the father had. the daughters not taken Of hand, she said,. Kennedy had beejj practising wrestling holds. Kennedy in evidence said he did not believe in people lying in bed. Mrs Lee pushed him backward. He pushed her and her husband hjt him with a broom.

sentence of seven days’ hand labour. Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., imposed a