SEQUEL IN COURT
SERIES OF CHARGES
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHBISTCHUBCH, This Day. As a sequel to the Cashmere Hills assault, four youths faced Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., this morning. Phillip Percival Sharp, aged 17, was charged with the theft of 6s, the.property of Thomas Allan Crawshaw. William Joseph Hallins, aged 18, and Stanley Thomas Allan Crawshaw, aged 17, were jointly charged with assaulting Phillip Percival Sharp, and Norman Frederick Fletcher, aged 18, was charged with breaking and • entering St. Mary's Church, Merivale, on August 25, and committing theft. All were remanded until September 5. The police said that all the accused were members of a clique about which there was a suggestion of the "Kelly Gang" or Ku Klux Klan. Sharp was assaulted for breaking an order by the gang. There were other charges pending of theft, breaking and entering, and car conversion, and Sharp was also involved in them. After Sharp was bound and gagged, his assailants, said the Chief Detective, stuck a pin into him to see if he was dead or not, and then they made off.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 50, 28 August 1933, Page 8
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181SEQUEL IN COURT Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 50, 28 August 1933, Page 8
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