ACCUSED REMANDED

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 16 August 1934, Page 9

ACCUSED REMANDED

Charge of Assaulting Shop Manager INCIDENTS AT BECKENHAM ATTACK WITH BATON (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 16. Before Mi* Mosley, S.M., to-day, Trevor Lyall Evans was charged with assaulting William George Hill, manager’of the Self-Help Store at- Beckenham, so as to cause him actual bodily harm, on August 8. He was remanded to August 21. Accused is described as a grocer’s assistant, aged 19, not 17, as stated when he was arrested last week. The police said that Hill was hit on the head with a specially prepared baton. There was a struggle in the shop, and accused later hit Hill with a bottle about the face and head. Accused then decamped, but was arrested that night. At one time accused’s father had been employed by the same company as well. There was some suggestion that this was at the back of it. Hill had been in hospital live days with face and scalp wounds. The fact of the prepared weapon would show that the offence was premeditated. Evans had a slouch hat pulled well over his face and a scarf pulled well up. He called at the shop after closing time and knocked at the door, which was opened by Hill.

Counsel said that Evans intended to plead guilty. Bail was fixed at £IOO, with one securitv of £IOO.