ALLEGED ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.
By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, February 12. John O'Grady, a smartly dressed young man, almost a youth, pleaded not guilty before Mr Justice Cooper, to-dayj to a charge of assault and robbery. The offence was stated in the indictment to have been committed on one John Nichol, in the Ngahauranga Gorge, on the 9th November last. The stolen property consisted of a watch and chain and £4 5s in money. Atfer the examination of Nichol, the complainant, had proceeded some time, in the course of which he admitted he had been drinking on the day of the alleged offence, and again this morning, Mr Myers, for the Crown, intimated that it was not considered safe to proceed on such evidence, and the case was withdrawn. The Judge admonished Nichol to refrain from drinking before coming into Court if he had at any time to appear there in future.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19090213.2.14.7
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3114, 13 February 1909, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
151ALLEGED ASSAULT AND ROBBERY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3114, 13 February 1909, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in