ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.
LOCAL NATIVE CHARGED.
At lho Welling!on Supreme Court yesterday, a Maori named Jack Tauwhanga, well-known iu (his distriet, having worked about the mills * here for many years, pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault and robbery, and was-undefended. , The case for the prosecution was the same as that, presented in the Lower Court. It was alleged that accused -met complainant, an old man named Peter M’Mahon, at the Thistle Hotel, and had been drinking there with him with a companion, when the accused invited M’Mahon out to “his house at Lyall Bay." Taking some liquor with them, they boarded a car for Lyall Bay. TJiey got off at Wellington Road, and complainant alleged that while walking • along bulb men assaulted him, and Tauwhanga robbed him of a hag , containing £l4l in money. They then snatched his watch, gave him “some punches in the dies!," and ran away. M’Mahon complained to the police, and several days later identified Tauwhanga in the Thistle Hotel as one of his assailants, and gave him in charge. Accused ad- • dressed the jury from the box. After a retirement of two hours the jury returned a verdict of guilty. Accused is to.be sentenced to-day.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2051, 6 November 1919, Page 2
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202ASSAULT AND ROBBERY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2051, 6 November 1919, Page 2
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