FOR TRIAL

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 56, 4 May 1928, Page 7

FOR TRIAL

YOUTH WITH HAMMER.

CHARGE OF ASSAULT,

SYDNEY, April 1

David Thomas Forrester, aged 18, a hairdresser, (at the Glebe Court today, wag charged with maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm upon Robert Trussell, at Glebe, on March 26.

Constable Hughes said that at 6.10 a.m. on March 26 he went to the rair of a shop at 44 Ross-street Glebe, and saw defendant being held by a man named' Bagshaw. In reply t 0 Constable Hughes, defedant said: "I wanted a couple of pounds, and I was going to knock Trussell out to get it." Witness entered" the house land saw Trussell lying on the bed covered in blood. ' A 41b. .hammer with which it was alleged, the attack was made, was produced. . Upbertj Trussell!, a ishop _ keeper, said that on the morning of the alleged attack he carried a cash box to the shop from Lis room above. He went inu., the ward, and was immediately attacked by Forrester. He closed with him, and was hit several times with a hammer. His cries brought his wife and Bagshaw. He also said he knew defendant, who hhd! been employed at a barber's near by. When he was leaving the yard, defendant said to him, "I'm sorry I had to do it, Mr. Trus • sell."

Defendant, who platled not guilty, was 7 committed for trial at tliq Quarter Sessions in May.