TAXIMAN ASSAULTED
FINE OF £5 [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, September 22. Arrested at Christchurch on a warrant and charged with assaulting Donald Kipling, a taxi driver, in Auckland on May 27 last, Frank John Hertz, alias Franklin John Smith, aged 39, appeared in the Police Court to-day. The police said that the accused, who was known to the taxi driver ns “ Dr Hertz,” engaged a taxi and drove to hotels with women. The latter left one hotel under the influence of liquor and Hertz came cut and accused the taxi driver of having taken the girls away, and without provocation assaulted the driver. The accused was later located in Christchurch, where he was engaged at a show.
Mr Hall-Skelton. for Hertz, who pleaded guilty, said the accused had been drinking rather heavily and did not remember assaulting the taxi driver. \ Mr F. K. Hunt fined him £5, or one month’s imprisonment.
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Evening Star, Issue 22451, 23 September 1936, Page 5
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152TAXIMAN ASSAULTED Evening Star, Issue 22451, 23 September 1936, Page 5
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