MURDER ATTEMPT ALLEGED
ACCUSED BEFORE COURT. REMAND TO NGARUAWAHIA. A charge of attempting to murder Muriel Tetzlaff at Hamilton on January 7 was preferred against Roy Charles Dorn, aged 20, in the Police Court yesterday. Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., was on the Bench. On the application of Chief-Detective Cummings accusicd was remanded to appear at Ngaruawahia next Wednesday. This charge was also called at Hamilton yesterday before Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M. Accused was, of course, not there, and Mr. Wilson dismissed it for want of a prosecution. Senior-Sergeant Sweeney explained that in order to avoid the trouble and expense of taking the accused back and forth from Auckland it had been arranged that he should bo brought before the Court at Auckland and remanded. The hearing would ultimately take place at Ngaruawahia.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19231, 21 January 1926, Page 12
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