ASSAULT IN PARK
(Press Assn.-
attack on girl KNOCKED DQWN AND HER- HANDjsAG STQLEN MAN CONVICTED
— By Telegraph— Copyright).
New Plymouth, Friday. The story of h6w she was sitting , in the park wheiT she was accosted by a man and knocked unconscious after her refusal to give him a cigarette was told by Thelma Storring, aged 17 years, in the S'upreme Court today, when William James Newman was charged with robbery with violence at Kawaroa Park on the afternoon of February 6, also alternative charges of stealing a handbag and contenfs to the value of £2 and assault. After the incident the girl said she was unable to pick out from the police identification parade the man who struck her, but the man in the dock was the one. EVidence was given that accused t was seen in the locality at the timc , of the alleged assault.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 542, 27 May 1933, Page 5
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147ASSAULT IN PARK Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 542, 27 May 1933, Page 5
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