ASSAULT & ROBBERY
£2OO Taken From Auckland
Restaurateur
TWO SUSPECTS ARRESTED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 24
A city restaurant proprietor was assaulted and robbed of about £2OO in Grey's Avenue at 4.15 this morning. He was Leonard Sanbrook, single, aged 30, proprietor of a restaurant in Upper Queen Street, and was admitted to Hospital. Before 9 o'clock detectives arrested two young men at Otahuhu as suspects. The police state they recovered about £l7O from the suspects. Mr. Sanbrook said he was first accosted by a man, with whom he grappled. Getting him down on the ground, he was able to deal with this assailant, but a second man attacked him from behind aud struck him a blow which dazed him. After grabbing his wallet and a bag containing silver his assailants made off. The victim managed to struggle to his home nearby. The police were called, and they removed him to hospital. He is suffering from severe abrasions, bruises to the face, and possibly a fractured bone.
The suspects, Cecil John Norris, labourer, aged 20, and Walter Raymond Green, 21, farm hand, are held on charges of robbing Sanbrook with personal violence.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 203, 25 May 1944, Page 6
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192ASSAULT & ROBBERY Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 203, 25 May 1944, Page 6
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