LICENSEE ASSAULTED
INCIDENT AT NGAHERE. An attempted robbery, and serious assault occurred at Ngahere yesterday. The licensee of the Ngahere Hotel Mr L. J. Manthorpe, was brutallyattacked, and as a result of injuries he sustained, he is compelled to remain in his bed. It is gathered that two men called at the hotel yesterday afternoon. One 'of them wanted Mr Manthorpe to “shout” him a drink. The other man meantime made an entry into the kitchen, by getting through a back window. Mrs Manthorpe was absent, and ’had locked the door of the rear portion of the hotel before leaving home. 'While one man kept Mr Manthorpe conversing, the other set about robbing the kitchen. Hearing a noise. Mr Manthorpe locked the front portion of the hotel, and went to the kitchen. On unlocking the door, he faced the second man, who immediately discarded his coat, and set upon the licensee. Spoons and knives, which he had taken, fell to the floor, from the pockets of his coat. In the melee that ensued Mr Manthorpe was severely battered about the head, and bruised from kicks on the body. The men, it is stated, came from Blackball, and thenearly arrest is expected.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19330313.2.9
Bibliographic details
Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1933, Page 2
Word Count
201LICENSEE ASSAULTED Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1933, Page 2
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Greymouth Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in