BOY ASSAULTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 234, 2 October 1937, Page 12

BOY ASSAULTED.

TWO YOUNG MEN CONVICTED. OLD ENOUGH FOR SELF-CONTEOL. HUNTLY, Friday. At the Huntly Couvt Arthur John Cole and Alexander Harold Stevens (Mr. J. C. Black), two young men from Pukemiro, were charged with assaulting Gordon Clark, aged 15. at Glen Afton

Dr. H. L. Gould said that he examined the boy and found abrasions and other injuries which he considered were consistent with his being kicked.

Clark said tliat in company with a number of other boys he went near the station yard and saw a motor car. It was fairly dark and there were some men in the car. He did not see the accused, Arthur Cole. One of the men in the car told them to push the car, but when Clark found the brake f s were on he left it alone. Afterwards the accused, Cole, arrived and one of the men in the car told him to kick one of the bove. The other boys ran away, but witness wa« kicked and pulled on the ground by Stevens.

Cole said that when he came out of the shop the boys were trying to push the car down the bank, and a etone had been thrown through the roof. The magistrate, in fining Cole 30/ and ordering him to pay expenses, £4 1/10, and convicting Stevens and ordering him to pay expenses, 16/, said that both the accused should have acted with more restraint and were old enough to control their feelings.