CRIME IN AUCKLAND

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10628, 6 May 1912, Page 5

CRIME IN AUCKLAND

OLD MAN ASSAULTED.

A SUSPECT ARRESTED.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.} ■ AUCKLAND, May 4. ' " Frank Taylor was arresWthismor-w ming on a charge of having last wetting violently assaulted and robbed Edward Olsen, an enfeebled inan 74 years* of lage. 'When eeen ait,the corner of Costomsr and Queeni Streets, where he seliet (newspapers, Olsen, who had struggled down to his eoiplbymenit because Behad not the wherewithal to prcreiiasea mieal, was found to be in. a very iwealk state, and shaking from head to ifoot. Ae he received (payment lor a, paper lie wuM only sob his th^ofe®-

lOkai mwde the following elateintent:— "I was alone drn : my room m Bit. Paul Stfreet last evening atwit.B o'clock, when a; yotog man' entered and (remiarkied, 'Yohi ihave got "to sliout.' I refused, whereupon itlhe mant Said, 'I wflil miafee you,' caught mo by the throat, and threw roe .back oir to the ib-ed in the corner. .Tine maz». tjheh snatched my watch aind cfoairt, andi, topen my trousers pooketa itctok aM they contained—'aboulfc 25s ir£ Kil-ver. I called for help;, out. .the inittrudea- tightened Jhis 1 grip upbn ; my throat iall I became Insensible and collapsed. After eome time I recovered Hjongci'ousness and crawled aPong to. Constable Wait soil's .residence aett't- ' I told the constable wlhat had happened." ; Constable Wafcon at ontfe made- a search, but ,without result. Qlsens. suppHod Cor.&table Gourley with par—-ticuS-ars of the case, and from the description .it was thbuight that ttb© ar--1 rested man was inrolkiated. With the j ! a6ais i tiir,<;<e «f-oonet(aible Baker, isearchpwas .inade. It'.was soon learned that [ Taylor hald spent ithe riiighlt on .board the •auxiliary schooner May Howard. tHe had left there ©any that morn—.ing- ~, ; ... (Search) wais 1 miafd'e' u'n "a 'numiber' of hotels, .and Taylor was eventually discovered in onei. On ibeing charged wiith assaulit .he eitrenufously „ denied any [knowledge of the affadr. He was itnben to the walncr-front police station •and l .geacched, the watch and chain 6e-

kg found an;' Ihis possession'. 1 . THiis Olssn claimed as the one .lie bad bcei» wearing previous to the assault. Tayfor fed cniy..'3fs in te posses-sioc. •He was tfhm'ged at the Police Court ■isliits m-oriiciiig, did oil .the application of tJw>, police was relMtidecl- for ft week.