VICTIMS OF ASSAULT

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 March 1928, Page 2

VICTIMS OF ASSAULT

NO INFORMATION TO POLICE.

SYDNEY, March 12. Following a practice, the prevalence of which in Sydney is causing much hindrance and concern to police officers, two victims, of week-end assaults refused to give any information which might lead to the arrest of their assailants. One was Harry Maguire, aged 31, of Cathedral-street. When he was admitted to Sydney Hospital at 12.11 a.m. yesterday, blood was streaming from a deep stab wound in his left side. Officers of the police night patrol, however, sought in vain to persuade him to give facts which would put them on the track of the persons who had caused his injuries. “Two friends and I were attacked by about six Maltes and Italians in Crown-street. I don’t want any police action in the matter,” was the most he would say. A He stated that he could not recognise his assailants. Bernard O’Hara, aged 31, of Darling-hurst-street, Darlinghurst, was given to the care of officers of No 3 police division late on Saturday evening by two men who said that he had been assaulted and robbed. He refused treatment at Sydney Hospital, and refused to tell anything to the police of what had happened to him during the night.