TRAPPED AND BEATEN
WATCHMAN ATTACKED
TWO MEN ARRESTED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHUBCH, This Day.
Following three men who he thought were behaving in a suspicious manner, Walter Reynolds, a nightwatchman in the employ of tho Post and Telegraph Department, was ambushed by two of them and received several blows before his erics for help caused his assailants to run away. Tho incident took placo at 7 o'clock yesterday morning. Reynolds received several blows, but was not hurt seriously. The police later arrested two men in connection with the affair. To-day Stanley Clifford York, aged 21, a. motor driver, and Phillip Hock, aged 25, a fireman, were charged with assaulting Walter Reynolds. York was also charged with being idle and disorderly. Both pleaded guilty, and were remanded until Thursday, bail being allowed to the amount of £200. The police said that after the assault the accused were traced to a house in the next street and wore identified'by Reynolds, but a third man could not bd found. ' ■ ]
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 17, 20 July 1931, Page 11
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