BRUTAL ASSAULT
ATTENDANT AT GARAGE FOUND UNCONSCIOUS (Per Press Association.) HAMILTON, this day. A brutal assault was committed 011 John Barton Elliott, 21, a garage attendant at the Morris petrol station, Hamilton, last evening, allegedly by motorists calling for benzine. Mr. Elliott, a married man, was the sole person on duty when two men in a car pulled up and ordered benzine. .As a result of trouble over payment, Elliott says, lie went to telephone his employe]', residing at another station a mile away. The employer, Mr. Morris, heard Elliott speak, and then came a dull thud, and he could get 110 reply. lie rang the police, and a neighbor who went to the scene found Eiiiott unconscious on the floor. He was removed to the Waikato Hospital. Imt his condition is not serious to-day. The injuries allegedly were .inflicted by a piece of wood 2ft. long and Bin. square. The sum of £ls in the till was not disturbed.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18256, 27 November 1933, Page 6
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