OLD MAN ROBBED.
MAORI ADMITS CRIME. By Telegraph—Press Association. Napier, Last Night. A Maori, Kareua Hoepa, was charged -*- >o^ce Court to-day with committ *g assault and robbery. The police evidence was to the effect that on -Saturday last accused, while in a hotel bar at Petane, saw Lars Amundson, an old man, produce a roll of notes, and when 'the men in the bar left at U p.m. accused followed Amundson, who returned ten minutes later stating he had been robbed. Accused had subsequently been spending freely, and when approached by the police he at first said the money had been given him, but on being told the police interviewed his mother, he admitted having attacked Amundson in the dark and taken his jhoney. Hoepa pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 August 1921, Page 5
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132OLD MAN ROBBED. Taranaki Daily News, 20 August 1921, Page 5
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