Boy stabbed in stomach

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33739, 11 January 1975, Page 14

Boy stabbed in stomach

The police are looking for two youths who stabbed a boy in the stomach in Travis Road, North New Brighton, about 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday. The boy, David Jchn Coates, aged 15, was accosted at a dairy by two youths who accused him of interfering with a car at New Brighton the previous Sunday. One of the youths drew a knife and stabbed him in thej right side of the stomach. The wound required two stitches. I The youths, both aged' about 17, drove off in a light! gold Volkswagen car of about 1964, with a round sticker on the back window. One was a European, about! sft 9in, with straight shoul-der-length blond hair. He had a scar or small hole above the right lip and was wearing a light-blue denim jacket with a swastika made from studs on the back, brown jeans, an orange T-shirt, and feather work boots. The other was a Maori or Islander, about sft 6in, fat.i with long curly black hair.! He was wearing a olack lea-, ther jacket with a tear in one! of the sleeves, and a blue shirt cut off at the snoulders. |

Robbery.—The theft of about $4500 worth of cloth-1 ing from an Eltham men’s wear store on Thursday night is being investigated by the Hawera C. 1.8. Shirts, trousers and suits were taken.—(P-AJ