ASSAULT AND ROBBERY
By Telegrs-ph—ljtfess Association. •Napier, August 19. A Maori named Kareua Hoepa was charged in the Magistrate’s Court today with committing assault and robbery.
The police evidence was to the effect (hat on Saturday last accused, while In an hotel bar at Petane, saw Lars Amundson, an old man, produce a roll of notes. When the men in the bar left at 6 p.m., accused follow Amundson, who returned ten minutes later stating that he had been robbed of X 5. Accused had subsequently been spending freely. When approached by the police he at first said that the money had been given him, but on being told this the police interviewed his mother, and he admitted having attacked Amundson in the dark and taken the money. Hoepa pleaded guilty, and was committed for sentence.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 280, 20 August 1921, Page 7
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136ASSAULT AND ROBBERY Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 280, 20 August 1921, Page 7
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