BLACKMAIL AND OTHER COUNTS

Northern Advocate, 31 May 1935, Page 8

BLACKMAIL AND OTHER COUNTS

ALLEGED AGAINST YOUNG MAN. [Special to *'Northern Advocate.” 3 AUCKLAND, This Day. A charge of blackmail was brought against a young man who appeared before Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday, following a happening on the night of ifray 17. A call was received by detectives about 10.30 and in an office in Anzac Avenue they found two young men injured and the office in a state of disorder. John Leslie Spicer, aged 23, a traveller, was arrested, and he appeared the following morning charged with assaulting Alfred Richard Buchanan. Accused was remanded and when he appeared again yesterday morning two additional charges were preferred against him —assaulting Norman Kenneth Sligo so as td cause actual bodily harm, and with menaces demanding money from Alfred Richard Buchanan with intent to steal the money. Mr Jenkins,, who appeared for Spicer, asked for a further remand for a week,. and this was granted. Mr R. A, Singer announced that he was acting on behalf of the person named in the charge of blackmail. “I think it is only right that the Court should suppress his. name," said counsel. The magistrate refused the application, stating that he had power only to suppress names of persons who were charged with an offence punishable by imprisonment, Mr Singer’s client was not in any way charged.