ASSAULT ON CHINAMAN.
ACCUSED PLEAD GUILTY. COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE. (Peb United Press Association.) . ROTORUA, January 11. In the Magistrate’s Court to-day, before Mr W. G. Kenrick, Leonard David Williams, aged 23, an engineer, of Morrinsville, and William Gibson Young, also nn engineer, were charged with assaulting and robbing Tom San Wong Too on December 12, 1925. Both pleaded guilty, and were committed for sentence at the Supreme Court at Auckland. Evidence disclosed on a statement by the accused showed that they came to Rotorua on a motor cycle with the intention of robbing a Chinaman, selecting their victim after examining several premises. The statement of the accused and the evidence of the Chinaman were the same, save one slight difference in the amount of the plunder. The capture was the result of a quarrel with -women friends, who gave them away.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19995, 12 January 1927, Page 8
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141ASSAULT ON CHINAMAN. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19995, 12 January 1927, Page 8
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