TAXI-MAN ASSAULTED
HIT WITH LEAD PIPE. By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, December 30. 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, labourer, pleaded guilty to-day to a charge of assaulting Brian Frederick Smuts Kennedy, taxi-driver, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Kennedy said he was struck over the left eye by the accused, and 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. Later 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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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 18764, 31 December 1930, Page 7
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