MAN FOUND INJURED IN STREET
• LABOURER CHARGED WITH ASSAULT (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELKQEAM.) AUCKLAND, June 1. Found in Customs street at midnight with injuries to his head and an ankle, Harold Robinson, aged 37, a cook, is lying in Auckland Hospital in a somewhat serious condition. Detective Coddington arrested Walter John Bernard McElwain, aged 34, a labourer, on a charge of assaulting Robinson so as to cause actual bodily harm. McElwain appeared before Mr W. R. McKean, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court. . Mr Hall Skelton, appearing for McElwain, in asking for bail, said that he understood that McElwain had a good defence. . Replying to the Magistrate, the police prosecutor said that the injured man was picked up in the street, having seemingly been assaulted in a certain building and dragged into the strsst. "It was a drunken brawl," said Mr Hall Skelton. McElwain was remanded till June 7. Bail was fixed at £l5O.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22108, 2 June 1937, Page 15
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