ASSAULT AT MIDNIGHT.
HEARING OFI CHARGES ADJOURNED. (liy Telegrapli—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Jan. 15. Alfred Henry Driscoll, aged 1 21, a jockey, and Edward Leydon, aged 22, were charged to-day with being implicated in the midnight assault at Greenlane on December 26. The complainants were Kenneth Rowland Welch and Alan William Smithson, both of whom received a severe handling, and Smithson, who came from Christchurch to play in the Dominion tennis champion ships, could’ not compete. Welch was left by his assailants bleeding profusely from a wounded head and was rescued by Smithson, whose own injuries were not so serious.
After evidence had been taken, counsel entered a plea for leniency, hut the magistrate, Mr. McKean, said the accused deserved to be convicted and heavily fined. The case was adjourned till Friday. The chief detective referred to Driscoll and Leydon as hoodlums in a car at midnight. Complainants denied refusing to assist them to repair a fault in the car or of using bad language.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 January 1929, Page 5
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