UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 572, 29 July 1909, Page 5

UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS.

ATTEMPTED HIGHWAY, ROBBERY. CONSTABLES TJSE /fHEIR BATONS. (By Toles'rapli-P]!e<iß Association) i - ' ' Chrlstohuroh, July 28. An alarming case ot attempted Laghw'ay robbery ocourred laet evening in Barbadoes, Street, bbtween Tuam Street and St. Asaph Street. A young woman who had been visiting friends in St, Asaph Street \\aa returning to hei home at about 10 SO, and horway took hoi past the Imporia! Hotel As sho turned into Barbadoos f-Jtreel she noticed two men standing at the. no'rth-western coriior 011 pf Bnrhadap? an ( d j%', Asaph greets. One qf tyicm was dressed in a long blue overcoat As she hurried along Birbadoes Street tho two men crossed,the raacf/ and followed her. ,/At ,th<i ,co'nou p{ fl 'i uan^_ one ot ( tho men caught her and placed "'one' of his hands over hei inQuJili Tho othei man camo up, and egmmenedd to n|lfi Ivor pockets Shd i Bcreamed, 'and tho first mail struck her thieo times,, once over tho taflpje Her scroains, however, .vttiaoted tliu attention of a man passing along' Tuum Street He ran to her assistance, 'and tho' two 1 men ,fled I did not succeed m taking anjihing, but tho rough handling' to which the woman was subjected'was fliown ' unmistakably by tho ' condition of her faco, which was covered in i blood. Over\thc right eje was a laigo, bruise cohaiderablj swollen, and on tho left sido of tho face there was'a'deep scratch about tw.o inches in length, which had probably been caused ring or ft finger-nail She says that she cpuld npt icjentifj tho men, because they came up beb,m4 hor. Neither of them spoke. ' Earlj this morning Constables Torrens' and O'Connor hemd that there were tyvo / undesirable chaiacters wn Durham Street South> They wont to the locality, and found a, light in the district nurse's office, Constable Torrons went to"the back door and ' Constable O'Connqr to the v front entranoo , They entered simultaneonsly, 'and. pne man rushed out at O'Connor, i> ho, how over, used his baton with telling effect, and lncapiciiated his opponent Torrons, hearing the noiso of a struggle, ran to the front of tljo building and found thp second man armed with a bottle There was another "mn up," in ■which the baton wag efficacious This, mornipg two men, Georgo Nottingham and, Frederick Wm Dennett, appeared at the Magistiatp's Court, and were charged with having broker) and entered a house with intent to comnyt a crime They were i remanded to August 4, ~ Smco tho, arres,t of the two men, the police havfi receded information qf several casps. of women being attacked by two men, | arid one wpfnan has identified one of tho i men as one of the pair that attacked her.