ASSAULT ON BAILIFF

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23130, 20 September 1940, Page 14

ASSAULT ON BAILIFF

TWO YOUTHS CONVICTED (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) HAMILTON. September 19. , A seqyel to the serving of a summons on a Te Rapa resident, when the bailiff was violently attacked by the resident’s sons, was heard in the Magistrate’s Court when charges of assail. were preferred against Leonard Vincent Windsor Brown, aged 19. ana Robert Alexander Wilson Brown, agea The bailiff. Michael McCormack, said that when he called to serve tne summons Leonard Brown ordered' him off the property, and then he was knocked down and attacked by rn two accused and their elder brother. After a scuffle he freed himself ana summoned the police: but he received injuries which necessitated his adffli-* sion to hospital for nearly five weeK--Leonard Brown admitted the offence, but the younger brother denied having taken any part in the scuffle, a statement which was supported in evidence by the third brother. , The Magistrate, Mr Paterson, declined to accept this version. sa y J Tj that he considered the evidence blatan perjury. In fact, the third brother wa%fortunate that he was not chargea with assault. He viewed the case vet y seriously, and “because of that, and ais to impose a deterrent penalty on Leonard Brown, it would have to 0 a severe sentence. Borstal detention not exceeding a year was imposed o Leonard Brown. Robert Brown wa ordered to come up for sentence within 12 months if called on. with a provision that he would not be require to appear if he reported to the polio weekly.