BRUTAL ASSAULT
TWO YOUNG MAORIS Auckland, Sept. 26. “The Crown views with alarm the increasing number of natives coming before the Court recently for charges involving dishonesty and disorderly conduct,” said Mr. Cleal, when appearing for the Crown in the Supreme Court. Mr. Justice Fair had before him for sentence two Maoris, Kooti Rudolph, aged 19, on two charges of robbery with violence and of assault causing actual bodily harm, and Johnny Ramaka Simon, aged 17, on two charges of robbery with violence. Mr. Cleal said that in this case these two men and two others were involved in a conspiracy to rob an old man with one leg. Not only did they rob him. but it was accompanied, so far as Rudolph was concerned, with a brutal asssfult, not only at the time of the robbery, but afterwards. His Honour said the assault was a Very brutal and cowardly one and this type of crime had been too frequent recently. Rudolph would be sentenced to three years' imprisonment and Simon to two.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 229, 29 September 1942, Page 3
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