ASSAULT DENIED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 106, 7 May 1931, Page 14

ASSAULT DENIED.

CASE CONCERNING ROADMAN. EVIDENCE AT PUKEKOHE. PUKEKOHE, Wednesday. Clifford Dahlin pleaded not guilty, before Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M., in the Pukekohe Police Court to-day, to a charge of assaulting a roadman, James Gleeson, on the Great South Road at Ramarama, on March 14, by striking him with his clenched fist. Dahlm was represented by Mr. M. R. Grierson. __ Segeant Cowan applied for a further remand to May 20, on the ground that the police were still seeking two of the men who had been named as being members of the party in a motor car which included Dahlin on the day of the assault. Mr. Grierson opposed the application. He said that Reginald Clarence Williams, the driver of the car, had been charged at the Pukekohe Court last Wednesday with the assault, and he was now a witness in the case to be brought against Dahlin. Williams, in evidence, said that through swerving just as he was overtaking it, a lorry nearly ran his car off the road. He stopped the car, and the two men who were with him in the front seat, Jack Johnson and Dahlin, left it for a short period and then returned. Dahlin was wearing a blue suit and a sun helmet —the kind of attire the lorry driver had to the man whom he said came from the direction of the car and, after attempting to hit him, struck the roadman as he appeared from behind the lorrry. The name of the man in the back seat of the car was Arthur Seymour. The magistrate granted an adjournment until May 20, and allowed bail in accused's own surety of £10.