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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1495, 18 July 1912, Page 4

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AND AN ARREST. (By Teleeraph.—Press Association.: ; Auckland, July 1". It will lie remembered that thnSe weeks' Tuesday, June 25, Alfred J. who keeps a. stationer's shop and billiard saloon on the Manukau Koad opposite tho tram barn at Epsom, was struck down by an unknown assailant'as he was "lAljout eleven. dclock,-from us saloon to liis house at the back of the section. On' that occasion Air. Roberts was struck 011 tho head with a piece of two-by-two timber, and dazed, though not rendered unconscious. 110 raised an outcry and his assailant ran away, but Roberts had a good look at tho man 111 tho, moonlight. It lias been presumed that the intention of the assailant was to' rob Mr. Roberts of his 111 pht .s; bakings in t.lio billiard saloon, iwp nights after this occurrenco Raul liUgene Serini, on a-burglary charge, was orrostra at his house, which is five win- 1 uws walk from floberts's saloon. "While 1 ben in was in oustody at the Courthouse, Roberts was taken to where a fairly considerable number of. prisoners were together, and he .at once picked out Serim as his assailant. This; and other evidence, resulted in Serim being charged at the Police Court this morning with assau ting Roberts so as to cause him actual bodily harm. The hearing of the charge was adjourned till Wednesday next.