OUTRAGE IN THE NORTH.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1674, 14 February 1913, Page 5

OUTRAGE IN THE NORTH.

WOMAN GAGGED AND ROBBED.'

(By Telegraph,--Press,Association;)

Whanflarel, February 13.' .i ■ Ilio police were informed last night that" a woman named' Marvin had been foimd' bound and gauged in her own home. Tho woman' stated that at eight o'clock a," young. mail cairte to tlio door with a.noto . for her husband, purporting to ooino from' the, superintendent oftho Fire Brigade. Ulio husband, beinjj; a' 1 member of tho . team which left to?urij}' for Wanganui to take part in the,'<lempn'stration,,liis wife - thought it ■ a,genuine note, asking that tho husband- should go 'and' seO' the 'Superintendent. Five minutes after tho ' loft, the .'woman wont to the bedraota, arid' • was .there seized by; two young-men, i '(i. handkerchief thrust in- her moutli, and money demanded. A heavy picture cordtfas placed round \ her throat, and pulled till she was nearly strangled, She then, told her assailants that the money'was'7 in tho chest of drawers; J?ll in notes and lCs. in silver avo missing. / Three months previously tho same woman states that she had an encounter' with' the' same ■' men, when .£3 and jewellery was stolen. When tho husband came homo half an. hour later ho found his wife unconscious on the floor; Tho police are reticent. •