GAOL FOR ASSAULT.
MAN BEATEN IN BEDROOM. (IP.A.) NEW PLYMOUTH, May 21. “I find it almost incredible, , in a country where life and limb is supposed to be safe, that drunken hooligans can pursue an unoffending man into his temporary home, and into his room, and then heat him up. That is the sort of thing that, happens in other countries, Germany for instance; but it is not going to happen here.” This comment was made by Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M., in the Waitara Magistrate’s Court, when he sentenced William Lake, a farm hand, .of Awnkino, and Albie Rowan, a farm hand, of Mahoenui, to two months’ imprisonment on a. charge of assaulting William Theodore Stanton at Awakino. Rua Anderson, a shepherd, of Otorohanga, was also charged. He did not- appear. A warrant for his apprehension has been issued.
Constable C. Q. Powell said that the three men concerned followed Stanton from a dance into his boardinghouse and forcedyt-hcir way into his room, where they beat him up. They made a thorough job of it. Thero was blood all over the floor. Stanton was well behaved at the dance.
Stanton, in evidence, said he could give no reason why the men attacked him.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 187, 22 May 1941, Page 8
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204GAOL FOR ASSAULT. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 187, 22 May 1941, Page 8
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