THE COURTS ALLEGED ASSAULT AND ROBBERY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVI, Issue LVI, 22 April 1909, Page 5

THE COURTS ALLEGED ASSAULT AND ROBBERY

fPRESS ASSOCIATION.!

CHRISTCHURCH, April 21.

Ernest Handock and William Hutchinson, young men, were charged at the Magistrate's Court with assaulting and robbing Henry John Lawrence, of Ashburton Falls, of £65 in money and a cheque for £22 10s on April 13. The evidence was that whilst returning from Riccarton races in a public drag, the two accused lined Lawrence's pocket, the others in the drag not interfering, though Lawrence screamed when accused robbed him: Both were committed for trial.