KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS
TAXI-DRIVER ASSAULTED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, This Day.
A constable, noticing a car standing at 'the blind end of Sturdee street on Saturday night, found Jphn Belsey, a taximan, lying unconscious on the car seat with a bady batterod head.
Mystery surrounded the affair. till Belsey regained consciousness in hospital, after which detectives visited a crib near Brighton and arrested a young man, who will be charged with assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm. It is stated that Belsey left for Brighton with a passenger at 7 o'clock on Saturday evening. The passenger left the car to visit a bach. On returning he sat in the rear seat remarking that the girl he was to escort would be ready in a few minutes. Bclsey sat reading, when suddenly he received a heavy blow which knocked him unconscious. It is alleged that tho assailant drove back to Dunedin, abandoning the car and the man in a blind street.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 151, 29 June 1931, Page 11
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