BRUTAL ASSAULT.
AT SERVICE STATION. Per Press Association. HAMILTON, Nov. 27. A brutal asault was committed on John Barton Elliott, a garage ntendant, of Morris’s petrol station, Hamilton’ last evening allegedly by motorists calling for benzine. lur Elliott is a married man, aged 21, and was the sole person on duty when two men in a car pulled up and ordered benzine. As a result of trouble over payment, Mr Elliott says he went to telephone his employer residing at another station a mile away. Mr Morris heard Mr Elliott speak and then came a dull thud and ho could get no reply. He rang the police, and a neighbour, who went to the scene, found Mr Elliott unconscious on the floor. He was removed to the Waikato Hospital and bis condition was not serious to-day. The injuries wore allegedly inflicted by a piece of wood two* feet long and one and a half inches square. The sum of £ls in the till was not disturbed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 309, 27 November 1933, Page 4
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