OLD MAN ASSAULTED.
YOUNG MAN CHARGED. (Per Press Associativa ) Auckland, May 11. A labourer named Frank Taylor was charged with having assaulted and robbed an old man named Edward Olson, a newspaper vendor over 70 year? of age. The case for the prosecution was that accused was in the habit oi \ : :;iting acquaintances residing in the same tenement as Olsen, but, on thif occasion, found his way into the room occupied by Olsen and two other old men. He then suggested that Plser should come and drink with him, and upon Olsen refusing, accused caught I Id of him by the throat nnU ah stracted 25s from .his.pocket. Accuse;, then took his watollif&nd chaifa,ian< left the house. After hearing the evidence of com pi.unant and two 'cmis'iablcs, aceusCc entered a plea of guilty, and was comm tted to the Supreme Court for set tence.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 13, 13 May 1912, Page 5
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