ATTACK ON DRIVER

Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18392, 28 July 1931, Page 7

ATTACK ON DRIVER

SEVERAL CHARGES BROUGHT. EVIDENCE REGARDING SANITY. (By Telog-rapb.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Monday. The case against David Wilson Forsyth arising out of an alleged attack on a taxi-driver, John Belsey, was called in the Supreme Court to-day. There were four charges including causing the actual bodily harm and assault with intent to rob. A jury was first empanelled to decido whether accused was insane so that he could not plead. Evidence was given by Dr. Childs, superintendent at Seacli IT Mental Hospital, who slated that accused had been insane for some time. The Jury decided that accused was sufficiently sane lo plead and Forsyth will be tried to-morrow.

FORSYTH BEFORE COURT. ACCUSED GIVES EVIDENCE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Tuesday. In the Supreme Court the charges against David Mitson Forsyth, alleging that he struck John Arthur Belsey, a taxi-driver, with an axe near Brighton, wore further heard this morning, when the police gave evidence of accused's original admission that lie struck Belsey. The defence then opened. Accused, in evidence, said a young man named Summers asked him to engage Belsey to pick up a young woman. After (rotting out of Hie car at Brighton he saw Summers at the hack of the crib. Summers told him tlie young woman was out at the back. Accused went hack to the ear, and told Belsey to turn it. Accused returned lo t he back of the crib, and when he readied the car again lie heard Belsey say something hard had hit him.