SEVERE ASSAULTS.
AND LIGHT SENTENCES. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] PALMERSTON N., May 13. At the Magistrate’s Court this morning, a- young man, Ernest Vincent, was charged with assaulting Gertrude Humphreys, for using obscene I tnguage, and assaulting Frederick Droves, an old man. Witnesses stated that-both assaults were severe, the old. man being knocked down twice by accused, for no apparent reason, and when a woman interfered she was also struck. Accused was fined £5 on each assault charge, in default 14 days’ imprisonment on each, cumulative. The obscene language charge was dismissed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3523, 14 May 1912, Page 6
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91SEVERE ASSAULTS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3523, 14 May 1912, Page 6
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