ASSAULT & ROBBERY
CHARGE AGAINST TWO MEN AT HASTINGS. A REMAND GRANTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HASTINGS. August 18. Two young men arrested last night appeared before Mr. J. Stickland. J.P., in the Magistrate’s Court, Hastings, charged with having on August 15 assaulted and robbed Albert Arthur Wilson. They were Horace Timothy O'Connor, aged 17. Hastings, and John McDonald, aged 21, Waipukuruu, described as an Englishman. A request for a remand till Thursday next by Senior-Sergeant G. Sivyer, who intimated that the police would then bo in a position to proceed with the prosecution, was granted. He added that accused had been associated in a similar ease in Wellington recently.
Keen public interest was taken in the appearance of the mon in court, the public gallery being well filled.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1939, Page 8
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127ASSAULT & ROBBERY Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1939, Page 8
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