ASSAULT ON GIRL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 January 1939, Page 6

ASSAULT ON GIRL

MAN SENT TO' GAOL FOR TWO MONTHS. EARLY MORNING EPISODE. IN WELLINGTON. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Screams at 20 minutes to 4 o’clock yesterday morning brought Constable Harvey, in a quickly summoned taxi, to the rescue of a girl returning home from a dance. The affair resulted in the appearance of Arthur Vincent Chick, a process worker, before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., on a charge of assault. Chick was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment. The girl told the police that as she was on her way home, defendant, with whom she had danced on occasions but whose name she did not know, met her and walked along the street with her. He threw her down and tried to force attentions upon her. There was a struggle and defendant ran away, when a taxi-driver and a constable came along.

The police said they accepted the statement of accused, who was under the influence of liquor at the time, that he had a clear record apart from the present offence, but said accused was fortunate that he was not charged with a more serious offence. Accused expressed regret over the affair and said he was a married man with a family to keep. On the charge of drunkenness he was convicted and discharged.