TWO AUCKLAND TAXI-DRIVERS ASSAULTED
AUCKLAND, Last Night (PA).— ■Two taxi drivers of the Auckland CoOperative Taxi Society were struck over the head in their cabs tonight by two men who then made off without paying their fares. The taxi drivers were Frederick Appleton, aged 35, of Point Chevalier, and William Booth, of Onehunga. Neither of them was seriously injured. Appleton, the victim of the first assault, was engaged about 6 p.m. by two young men, who instructed him to drive them to an hotel in the city. As the taxi driver was pulling up outside the hotel, he was hit on the head by one of the passengers. He shouted for help and the men left the car and disappeared. The second assault took place outside the Green Lane Hospital about 9 o’clock. After acepting a fare from two men from Newmarket to the hospital, Booth had just stopped his taxi and was about to ask for the money when he was hit over the head with "something that felt soft." Booth grappled with his assailants, but teceived several more blows to the head. The two men then made oif and the taxi driver, ’bleeding freely from cuts, drove to the hospital. After receiving attention, he went home.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 23 May 1949, Page 5
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