PEPPER IN FACE
VICTIM’S COMPANION ACCUSED. [BY CABLE—PBESB ASBW. —COPYBIGHT.] SYDNEY, August 8. Mention of the robbery yesterday was made in the Police Court, when Kenneth Charles O’Connell, 31, plasterer, was charged with having stolen £690, the property of John Wilson. Detective Boswell said it had been stated defendant and Wilson, when carrying money from a bank, had been confronted by another man, who threw pepper in O’Connell’s eyes assaulted Wilson, and made off with the money. The police alleged O’Connell was in the plot, and that he actually did not receive any pepper in his eyes. Defendant Was remanded. Bail was allowed in the sum of £lOOO.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 August 1935, Page 8
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