MAN KNOCKED DOWN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 134, 8 June 1934, Page 10

MAN KNOCKED DOWN.

AFTER ROBBING TILL.

SENTENCE OF IMPRISONMENT.

Told by a customer late last night that a man was robbing liis till, the proprietor of a Queen Street grill room dashed to the front of his premises and. saw a man in the act of running away from the till. Without asking any questions the proprietor of the establishment knocked the man down and called the police.

In the Police Court this morning, before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., Rangi Aka, aged 30, a labourer, was charged with stealing £9 in money, the property of James JRudolff Jurie. After hearing the evidence, Mr. Noble, who appeared for accused, intimated that he would plead guilty.

Sub-Inspector Edwards said that at 10.55 last night Mr. Jurie was in the cooking room of his shop when he was told that a man was robbing his till. He ran to the front of the shop and arrived just as accused stood up from the till and started to run away. The proprietor immediately knocked the man down, and subsequently £9 was found in his possession. A check showed that J £13 9/ had been registered and that there.was only £3 9/ left in the till, but as only £9 had been found on accused he was only charged with the theft of that amount. He appeared to have taken fiome liquor.

Mr. Noble said that accused had told him that a Dalmatian had tried to beat him for his change.

Mr. Hunt: Yes, he would tell you ;hat.

Mr. Noble: The Dalmatian got some of his own back. He knocked, him out. Aka was sent to gaol for six months.