ALLEGED ASSAULT
MAN PICKED UP IN STREET
ARREST AND REMAND"
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)-' AUCKLAND, This Day. Found in Customs Street at midnight with injuries to the head and ankle, Harold Robinson (37), a cook, is lying in the Auckland Hospital in a some-, what serious condition. \-
Detective Coddington arrested Walter John Bernard McElwain (34), a labourer, on a charge of assaulting Robinson so 'as to cause actual bodily harm and the accused appeared at the Police Court this morning. , Mr. Hall Skelton, who appeared for him, asked for bail. He said he understood that McElwain had a good defence.
Replying to the Magistrate (Mr. McK,ean) the police said that the injured man was picked up in the street, having seemingly been assaulted in a certain building and dragged into the street. "It was a drunken brawl, said Mr. Hall Skelton. The accused was remanded till June 7. Bail was fixed at £150.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 128, 1 June 1937, Page 11
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