"BEATEN UP"
MAN ASSAULTED IN ROOM FARM HANDS IMPRISONED. (P.A.) NEW PLYMOUTH. Wed. "I find it almost incredible in a country where life and limb are supposed to be safe that drunken hooligans can pursue an unoffending man into his temporary home and into his room and then beat him up," said Mr. W. H. Woodward. S.M.. in the Waitara Police Court in dealing with an assault case. "That is the sort of thing that happens in other countries —Germany, for instance —but it is not going to happen here." The magistrate sentenced William Lake, farm hand, and Albie Rowan, farm hand, to two months' imprisonment on a charge of assaulting William Theodore Stanton at Awakino.
Kua Anderson, a shepherd, was also charged. He did not appear and a warrant for his apprehension has been issued.
Constable C. O. Powell said the three men concerned followed Stanton from a dance into his boardinghouse and forced their way into his room, where they beat him up. They made a thorough job of it. There 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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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 119, 22 May 1941, Page 8
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