ASSAULT AND ROBBERY'
THliP'.li MEN API’GAI! IN COURT. (By Telegraph —Press Association..) WELLINGTON, Aug. 27. i James Martin, aged 26, a motor I driver, William Alexander Matthews, aged 28. a taxi-driver, and Harry Boyer, aged 25, a seaman, were jointly charged in the Magistrate’s Court, with assaulting and robbing Bernard O'Brien of £1 and assaulting and robbing Patrick Toohi’il o£ £lO. The story is that the two men were tirst driven in a taxi to a house in BLilbirnie, and afterwards, after some drinking, to Seatoun late at night, and that there the assault and robbery took place, both men .afterwards being taken by a resident to the hospital. ’ Mr Leicester, for Martin, said that I hi« client proposed to plead guilty, tut dtenied taking any part in the violence used..
Both the others pleaded guilty and were committed for sentence.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 28 August 1930, Page 5
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141ASSAULT AND ROBBERY' Hawera Star, Volume L, 28 August 1930, Page 5
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