ASSAULT CHARGE
COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE.
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, December 30
Admitting that lie had ordered a taxi-driver into a secluded area, in order to rob him, and so obtain money qeasily to enable him to get back to Nelson, Thomas James, a labourer, aged 18, pleaded guilty to-day to a charge of assaulting Brian Frederick Smuts Kennedy, a taxi-driver and was committed to th© Supreme Court for sentence.
Kennedy said he was struck over the left eye by the accused and managed to grapple with and hold him while the pair walked to a telephone. James pleaded that he was only a boy and would never do it again and asked to be let go. Later accused informed the police that tie was desperate. A piece of lead pipe was found in the ear and James admitted lie had used it in. an. assault.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1930, Page 5
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