OLD MAN ROBBED.
ATTACKED NEAR NAPIER
Napier, Aug. 19
A Maori named Kareun Hoepa was charged at the Police Court today with committing assault and robbery. The police evidence was to the effect that, on Saturday last, accused, while in an hotel bar at Petane, saw Lars Amundson, an old man, produce a. roll of notes, and when the men in the bar left at 0 p.ju., accused followed Amundson, who returned ten minutes later, staling that he had been robbed of £5.
Accused was subsequently seeu spending freely, and when approached hv the police at first said the money had been given him, hut, on being told that the police had interviewed his mother, admitted having attacked Amundson in the dark and taken the money. Hoepa pleaded guilty, and was committed for sentence.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2318, 20 August 1921, Page 2
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134OLD MAN ROBBED. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2318, 20 August 1921, Page 2
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