ASSAULT ADMITTED
LEAD PIPING USED (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Admitting that he ordered a taxidriver into a secluded area, in order to rob him and so obtain money easily to enable him to get back to Nelson, Thomas James, lb, a laborer, pleaded guilty to-day to a charge of assaulting Brian Frederick Smuts-Kennedy/ a taxidriver, and .was 'committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Kennedy said lie. was struck over the left eye by the, accused, but managed to grapple with and hold him while the pair walked to the telephone. James pleaded that he was only a boy, and would never do it again, and asked to be let go. The accused informed the police that he was desperate. A piece of lead pipe was. found in the car, and James admitted that he had used it in the assault.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17453, 30 December 1930, Page 8
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143ASSAULT ADMITTED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17453, 30 December 1930, Page 8
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