ROBBERIES IN WANGANUI

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2415, 22 March 1915, Page 4

ROBBERIES IN WANGANUI

SATURDAY NIGHT INCIDENT." (By Teleirr&Dh.—Press Aeioclction.) Wanganul, March 21, Two robberies were reported to ths police during Saturday night. The first case was that of an old man from the country, vrlio had come to town to spend a holiday. He started off by drinking more than was good for his wits, and chummed up with two men, who offered to take him to a boardinghouse across the river. The sequel was that the men went through his pockets and took £8., The second case occurred in a boardinghouse where a man was awakened at midnight by finding three men in his room, one of whom dragged away his coat from under his pillow. The robbed man raised a great noise, and awakened the household. In his excitement he smote in the eye one man whom he evidently thought was a robber, and in Teturn received a black eye. The police arrived and restored quiet. The man's coat was found in the yard, but a purse with £8 17s. had gone. There was no trace of the offenders in either case.