UNCONSCIOUS IN CAR.
TAXI DRIVER, ASSAULTED. ALLEGES BLOW FROM REAR. YOUNG MAN ARRESTED. (Br Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. 'A constable who went to inspect a car that was standing at the blind end of ■ Sturdee Street on Saturday night found John Belsey, a taxi driver, lying unconscious on the seat, with his head badly battered. Mystery surrounded the affair till Belsey regained consciousness in hospital, after which detectives visited a '•bach" near Brighton and arrested a young man, who will -be charged with assault, with intent to do grievous bodily harm. Belsey left for- Brighton with a passenger at; 7 p.m. on Saturday evening. The passenger left the car, and on returning entered the rear .seat with the remark that 'the girl he was escorting would'bc ready in a few minutes. Belsey sat reading, and suddenly received a heavy blow, knocking him unconscious. His assailant then, it is alleged, drove back to Dunedin, where lie abandoned the car and the man in a blind street.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 151, 29 June 1931, Page 8
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