A MASKED ROBBER
FLAX CUTTER ASSAULTED. DABOURER 'SENT FOR TRIAL. ('3y Telegraph. Press Association.) PAILMERSrrON N., Friday. 'ln the IPolie/a Court Ifa-day, Weils Peder Sorensen Hansen, a laboturer, aged 34, pleadjed guilty to two) charges of theft involving five shiillings and a hat from workmen at the central camp at Miranui. Accusfsid was sentenced to fourteen days' gaol on: each charge, to b)e concurrent. Accused was also .charged thaft, oa October 14th, at Mitranui, his) did assault Meredith Fitzlsimmons with inj'ent to rob. Pl/eadinlg not guilty, he was coniinitted for' trial at ,t)he Supreme Court. 'Senior ISergeant OXlrady stalled that accused went to (Fitzsimimons' 'hut whlsfn Ithe latter was in bed, and demanded money? AiOCus|eU|, who was masked, caught Eitzsimmons around the] throat and struck him several times over the head with some sitoneis tied in a handkerchief, injujring Fitzsimmoms considtstrably. lEvidlence on tihese lines wag igiven by Fitzsimmons and other witnesses, 'who said they identified accused -by his build. One "wiltnelss said that accused nlefxt. morning, when dtetained at the mill, adimi)t.ted going into Fitz-* simmoms' hut and asking for mon|ey, adding, ""I suppose I'M 'get six months for it." >*
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1925, 23 October 1926, Page 5
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191A MASKED ROBBER Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1925, 23 October 1926, Page 5
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