ASSAULT IN STORE.
YOUTH FOB SENTENCE.
CHRISTCHURCH, August 21
In the Magistrate’s Court to-day Trevor Lyall Evans, aged 18, pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence on a charge of assaulting Walter George Hill, manager of the Self-Help Store at Beckenham, on the night of August 8.
In a statement made to a detective, the accused said he had been jealous of Hill for some time because Hill used to take his girl from him in “Ekteuse me” dances. He thought that Mill did that to make him look boyish. He had had this idea in his mind for some time, and on August 8 he deeicled to go to Hill’s shop and give him a thrashing. He called Hill to the door and directed a blow at him with a stick. Hill called for help, and a -struggle ensued. When he heard people ’coming, the accused stated, he struck Hill three times with a kerosene bottle. He wanted to knock. Hill out so Ahat he could get away. Hill went ■limp, and the accused thereupon ran away. x The police stated that the assault ,had been deliberately planned, and that the accused was very fortunate to be in Court only on a minor charge. Counsel denied that the accused had been masked, and said he was simply wearing a scarf which he had been, wearing earlier in the day.—-(P.A.),
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Wairarapa Age, 22 August 1934, Page 3
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