WAIHI "ASSAULT" CASE.
STATEMENT BY THE POLICE.'
(By Telegraph. Press Association.)
HAMILTON, Wednesday.
Investigations made by the police have failed to confirm the story told in yesterday's telegrams of an assault on Mr S. Tanner, a butcher, of Waihi, by an unknown man who had followed him from the races at Hamilton.
According to the earlier message it was made to appear that Tanner was sitting reading at home, a sum of money being on the table nearby, when a strange man suddenly entered the room. Hearing a noise Tanner' immediately grabbed his money and placed it in his pocket. The money amounted to between £7O and £BO. Tanner was then attacked by the stranger, who struck him on the head with a blunt instrument. Tanner, who is a powerful man, fell half stunned but immediately closed with his antagonist and easily mastered him, throwing him through a window. Then Tanner followed, but his assailant managed to escape. Tanner describes the man as clean shaven and about the same build as himself.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1427, 15 November 1923, Page 5
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