ALLEGED CRUELTY

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 October 1929, Page 12

ALLEGED CRUELTY

UNCLE AND NEPHEW.

(Per Press Association.)

INVERCARGILL, October 25. Allegations of continued cruelty and neglect were made in the Police Court this morning before Mr. W. H. Woodward, SM., when Arthur ’ Robert Biondell, of Waimatea, was charged ■'with assaulting his nephew, a youth of 16, George Henry Tweedale. Accused, who was represented by Mr. Gordon Reed, pleaded not guilty. In opening the case, Senior-Sergeant Fox said that the facts to be proved were shortly as follow:—-The youth alleged to have been assaulted was 16 years old, aud was the nephew of the accused. He intended to call evidence that the boy, who for two years had been living with the accused, had been roughly treated. Following an alleged assault, the boy had cleared out. He had called on a Mrs. Murdoch. He had little clothing on then, and he appeared to have been knocked about. Next day he had been found work with a Mr Shirley, and had been there since. The accused had sought out the police shortly afterwards, and had made a statement in which he said that he could give no reason why the boy should clear out. Accused had given him a good character, and had said that he had been well treated. The defence was a denial of the charges, and the suggestion was made that complainant’s injuries had been received as the result of falling from a cart.

The case was adjourned till November 2, for the purpose of hearing further evidence.