“BEATEN UP”
ASSAULT IN BOARDING HOUSE. TWO ASSAILANTS SENT TO GAOL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, May 21. “I find it almost incredible in a country where life and limb are supposed to be safe that drunken hooligans can pursue an unoffending man into his temporary home and into his room and then beat him up. That is the sort of thing that happens in other countries —Germany, for instance —but it is not going to happen here." This comment was made by Mr Woodward. S.M.. in the Magistrate’s Court. Waitara, when he sentenced William Lake, farmhand, Awakino. and Albie Rowan, farmhand, Mahoenui. to two months' imprisonment on a charge of assaulting William Theodore Stanton in Awakino. Rua Anderson, shepherd. Otorohanga, also charged, did not appear. A warrant for his apprehension has been issued. Constable C. W. Powell said lhe three men concerned followed Stanton from a dance into his boarding-house and forced their way into his room, where they beat him up. They made a thorough job of it. There was blood all over the floor. Stanton was well behaved at the dance. Stanton, in evidence, said he could give no reason why the men attacked him.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1941, Page 5
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