AN “ASSAULT” MYSTERY.
CONFESSION BY A YOUTH.
AN ELABORATE HOAX.
HANDS TIED BEHIND HIS BACK.
The mystery surrounding an "assault" on a youth, aged 19, who was found in a street off Quay Street last Thursday about 2.30 a.m. in a dazed condition, with his hands tied behind his back, has been solved by his confession that it waa a hoax.
The first version of the affair given by tho young man, who is employed by a business firm on the waterfront, was that he had been working till about 11 o'clock the previoug night and was on his way to the post office to post letters when he was assaulted by two men and robbed of £22. One of thwn hit him on the head and he had remembered nothing till he was found. He had apparently been lying in tho street for about two and a-half hours and was suffering from exposure. He was taken to the Auckland Hospital, being discharged yesterday morning. In the meantime inquiries by the police showed that while tho lad had been at his place of employment the previous evening, having boen seen there, he had no business to be at work. The youvh subsequently admitted to Detective-Ser-geant Hammond that the " assault " was a " put-up job," and that he had not been attacked.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18016, 15 February 1922, Page 9
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220AN “ASSAULT” MYSTERY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18016, 15 February 1922, Page 9
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