Bedside Court At Auckland Hospital

Chronicle (Levin), 30 December 1949, Page 5

Bedside Court At Auckland Hospital

AUCKLAND, Dec. 29. A bedside Court was held at the ' Auckland Public Hospital early this I morning for the testimony of an in1 jured mah whose condition was deteriorating. The patient was Wil liam Henry Wilson, aged 3S, a labourer. The man aecused of doing him griev- : ous bodily harm was John Tai Raymond, aged 40, a labourer. Raymond was accompanied by his counsel. .Wilson testified that on Boxing night he visited a house in Airedale Street where accused and Mary Benson occupied the front room, "I asked Raymond for beer and paid him 18s for half a dozen bottles. I stayed and drank beer. There were about 30 people there," Wilson said. He thought he left about 11.30. Raymond struok him down in'!the front room, kicking him in the stomach and back. Ravmoud ti-en threw him out on a vaeant section. Witness was not too sober. A polieeman found him about II o'clock next morning. Cross-examined, Wilson said he visited the house about three times weekly. He did not remember returning about 2 o'clock in the morning and Raymond giving him a bed *';on a 'couch. He slept on the section. He believed he was assaulted to get money. People knew he got about £200 compensation for an injury to a hand. He had about £5 or £6 when he went to Airedale Street. He had nothing when the police found him. The Magistrate, Mr. H. Jenner Wily, adjourned the hearing.