ASSAULT AND ROBBERY
MEN COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, August 27. James Martin, aged 26, a motor driver, William Alexander Mathews, aged;2B, a taxi driver, and Harry Boyer, aged 25, a seaman, were jointly charged in the Magistrate’s Court with assaulting and robbing Bernard O’Brien of. : £I and assaulting and robbing Patrick Toohill of £lO. The story is that the two men were first driven in a taxi to a house in Kilbirnie, and afterwards, after some drinking, to Seatoun late at night, and that there the assault and robbery took place, both men afterwards Being taken by a resident to hospital. Mr. Leicester, for Martin, said his Client proposed to plead guilty, but denied taking any part in the violence used. Both of the others pleaded g ilty and were committed for sentence.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 August 1930, Page 6
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