DENIAL OF ASSAULT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20866, 7 May 1931, Page 12

DENIAL OF ASSAULT.

SECOND MAN CHARGED. CASE AT PUKEKOHE. FURTHER REMAND GRANTED. [from our own correspondent.] PUKEKOHE, Wednesday. A plea of not guilty was entered by "Clifford Dahlin before Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M., in the Pukekohe Police Court today, to a charge of assaulting a roadman, James Gleeson, on the Great South Road at Eamnrama on March 14 by striking him with his clenched fist. Dahlin appeared on remand from Auckland. He was represented by Mr. M. R. Grierson.

Sergeant Cowan applied for a further remand to May 20, explaining that the police were still seeking two of the men who had been named as being members of tho party in a motor-car which included Dahlin on the day of the assault. Mr. Grierson opposed tho application. He referred to the fact that Reginald Clarence Williams, the driver of the car, had been charged at the Pukekohe Court last Wednesday with the assault and he was now a witness in the case to bo brought against Dahlin. Mr. Grierson said Williams desired to go south. A further remand would therefore greatly inconvenience him, and, moreover, there was no assurance that by May 20 tho police would have ■ found the two men they were seeking. It was agreed that Williams should give his evidence on the charge against Dahlin forthwith. He said that through swerving just as he was overtaking it, a lorry nearly ran his car off the road. ' He stopped the car and the two men who were with him in the front seat, Jack Johnson and Dahlin, left it for a short period and then returned. Dahlin was wearing a blue suit and a sun helmet—the kind of attire the lorry driver had ascribed to the man whom he said came from the direction of the car and, after attempting to hit him, struck the roadman as he appeared from behind the lorry. The name of the man in tho back seat of the car was Arthur Seymour. At this stage an adjournment until May 20 was granted, bail being allowed in accused's own surety of £lO as before.