ALLEGED ASSAULT

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 63, 11 September 1937, Page 11

ALLEGED ASSAULT

FIVE YOUNG MEN CHARGED

"When young men like these gang together and go about armed with beer bottles, 'cracking' people, then something has got to be done about it" said Detective-Sergeant W. Kane in the Magistrate's Court today when five young men were jointly charged before Mr. E. D. M6sley, S.M., with assaulting Noel Percival Kichards and George Kichards on September 5 so as to do actual bodily injury. Mr. T. P. McCarthy, counsel for the five defendants, objected to the Detec-tive-Sergeant "assuming that the defendants were guilty."

The defendants were Alan. George Eagle, timber worker, 22; John Balph Cairncross, glass beveller, 21; Edward Ernest Aitken, timber worker, 20; Samuel John Barrett, mechanic, 22; and Neville Edward Gandy, labourer, 22.

The detective-sergeant said that the five young men tried to get into a birthday party at Stepney Place on the evening of September 5, but were refused admissioa. They came back later in the evening, having had some liquor. An altercation took place, as a result of which one of the Eichards brothers was admitted to hospital suffering from concussion and was still there, and the other received a cut on the head which required five stitches. He asked for a remand until September 15. •

Mr. McCarthy said that three of the defendants were of good character and had never been before the Court previously.

The remand was granted, bail being fixed at £100 with one surety of £100, and a condition was imposed that the defendants report daily.