THE AUCKLAND ASSAULT CASE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3578, 18 July 1912, Page 6

THE AUCKLAND ASSAULT CASE.

MAN CHARGED WITH THE OFFENCE.

[PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION.! AUCKLAND, July 17

It will be remembered that three weeks ago—on the night of Tuesday June 25, Alfred J. Roberts, who keeps a stationer’s shop and billiard saloon o.i the Manukau Road, opposite the ti am barn at Epsom, was struck down by an unknown assailant as he was going, about 11 o’clock, from his saloon to his house, at the back of the section. Roberts w.aj» struck on the head with a piece of two-by-two timber and dazed, though not rendered unconscious. He raised an outcry and his assailant ran away, but Roberts had a ■good look at the man in the moonlight. It has been presumed that the intention of the assailant was to rob Mr. Roberts of bis night’s takings in the billiard saloon. Two nights after this occurred Paul Eugene Serim, on burglarly charges, was arrested at his house, which is five minutes’ walk from Roberts’ saloon. While Serim was in the custody or the Court house, Roberts was taken to where a fairly considerable number of prisoners were together, and he at once picked out Serim as his assailant. This and other evidence, resulted in Serim being charged at the Police Court this morning with assaulting Roberts so as to cause hint actual bodily harm! The hearing of the charge was adjourned till Wednesday next.