Drunken Hooligans Beat Up Unoffending Man
THREE MOUTHS’ IMPRISONMENT Per Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, May 21. “I find it almost incredible in h country where iife aud limb is supposed to be safe that drunken hooli gans can pursue an unoffending man into his temporary home and into his room aud then beat him up. That is the sort of thing that Happens in other countries—Germany for instance—but it is not going to happeu here.” This comment was made by Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M-, in the Waitara Police Court when he sentenced William Lake, a farm hand, of Awakino, and Albie Rowan, a farm hand, of Mahoenui, to two months’ imprisonment on a charge of assaulting William Theodore Stanton at Awakino. Rua Ancferson, a shepherd, of Otorolianga, •ftas also, charged but did, not appear
and a warrant for his apprehension has been issued. Constable C. W. Powell said the three men concerned followed Stanton from a dance into his boarding-house and forced their way into his room where they beat him up. They made a thorough job of it. There was blood all over the floor. Stanton was well behaved at the dance. Stanton, in evidence, said he could give no reason why the men attacked him.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 121, 23 May 1941, Page 3
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