COURT IN HOSPITAL
ALLEGED ASSAULT VICTIM
EVIDENCE OF CHINESE
MAORI WOMAN CHARGED
(Prr Tress Association.) AUCKLAND, this day
Portion of a ward at the Auckland Hospital was constituted a Police Court yesterday when the depositions of .an elderly Chinese, Lee Jung, aged 65, the victim of an alleged assault in Myers Park last Saturday night when he was robbed of £137 10s, were taken before Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M.
After the alleged assault, a Maori woman appeared before the court on Monday and was remanded. ’Since then the condition of the victim has caused some anxiety, and it was deemed advisable to take the unusual course of holding a special court in the ward.
The magistrate sat .at the foot of the bed,, which was screened off and a clerk typed the depositions at a table alongside the patient. On the other side stood a Chinese interpreler, counsel for the accused and police officers.
The accused, Materia Brown, a .Maori woman, aged 44, was charged with stealing from the person of Lee Jung, on August 27, the sum of £137 10s. The hearing was adjourned.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20031, 1 September 1939, Page 14
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