HIT BY ROBBERS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 660, 13 January 1933, Page 5

HIT BY ROBBERS.

Young Man Waylaid in Park at Auckland. CONSTABLE’S TWO ARRESTS. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, January 12. At 11.45 p.m. yesterday a young man named Eric George Oliver was assaulted and robbed by two men in Myers Park. Constable Massey heard voices coming from the direction of a convenience at the lower end of the park and, flashing his torch along the side of the convenience, he saw three men struggling on the ground. Two men were punching the third with their fists. When the two men saw the constable both stood up and made an attempt to escape. Constable Massey then drew his baton and struck one of the men across the forehead. He staggered and fell to the ground. The constable caught hold of the other man who, after a struggle, said he would “go quietlv.” While the constable was handcuffing this man Oliver was trying to hold the other man on the ground. Before Constable Massey could go to his assistance, however, the other assailant got to his feet and ran up through Myers Park. Several letters and a bank pass-book belonging to Oliver were scattered on the grass. At two o’clock this morning Constable Massey went to Beresford Street and arrested a man. He was in bed, bleeding from a cut on his forehead. Oliver, in a statement to the police, alleged that both men, after punching him, rifled his pockets and stole 3s 3d. They tore his left trouser pocket, turned his inside coat pocket out and pulled up his shirt to see if he wore a money belt. Oliver’s injuries consisted of a blow on the. left eye and abrasions. One of his teeth was broken off. This morning Claude Harold Miller, aged twenty-four years, and Leslie John Walding, aged twenty-four years, a hawker, appeared before Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., charged with assaulting Oliver. Miller and Walding were each charged with robbing Oliver of 3s 3d and at the time of or immediately before such robbery using personal violence. A remand was granted, bail being refused.