ROBBERY ALLEGED
GIRL'S EVIDENCE
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) i NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. The allegation that she was sitting in the park when she was accosted by, a man and knocked unconscious after a refusal to give him a cigarette was told by Thel'ma Stoning, aged 17, ia the Supremo Court today, when William Janios Newman was charged with: robbery with violence'at KawaroU Park on the afternoon of February 6. Thero were also alternative charges of stealing a handbag and contents, valued at £2, and assault. After the incident the girl said that she was unable to pick out from a police identification parade the man who struck her, but tho mail in the dock was the one. Evidence was given that tho accused! was seen in the locality at the time of the alleged assault.
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Evening Post, Issue 122, 26 May 1933, Page 8
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135ROBBERY ALLEGED Evening Post, Issue 122, 26 May 1933, Page 8
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