ATTACK IN STREET

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 121, 24 May 1944, Page 6

ATTACK IN STREET

INJURED AND ROBBED

TWO SUSPECTS ARRESTED P.A. AUCKLAND, This Day. A city restaurant proprietor was assaulted and robbed of about £200 in Grey's Avenue at 4.15 this morning. He was Leonard Sanbrook, single, 30, proprietor of a restaurant in Upper Queen Street, and was admitted to hospital. Before 9 o'clock detectives arrested two young men at Otahuhu as suspects. The police state they recovered about £170 from the suspects. Mr. Sanbrook said he was first accosted by a man with whom he grappled. Getting him down on the ground he was able to deal with this assailant, but a second man . attacked him from behind and struck him a blow j which dazed him. After grabbing his wallet and a bag containing silver, his assailants made off. The victim, managed to. struggle to his home nearby. The police were called and they removed him to hospital. He is suffering from severe abrasions, bruises to the face, and possibly a fractured bone. The suspects, Cecil John Noms, labourer, 20, and Walter Raymond Green, 21, farm hand, are held on charges of robbing Sartbrook with personal violence.