BRUTAL OUTRAGE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 692, 23 July 1875, Page 3

BRUTAL OUTRAGE.

(From the European Mail.) The neighborhood of Dbnnybrook has been thrown into a most painful state of excitement, in consequence of a report that a house in Morehampton-road had been burglariously entered by a gang of robbers, who had made off with a quantity of valnable properly, after having murdered a lady named Miss Ann Emma Geoghan, who was sitting down writing a letter to her brother who is in Bath, and while so engaged her attention was attracted by some noise. It was then half-past 9 o’clock and there was no person that she was aware of in the house lint herself, as the servants were out. She continued to write, and on suddenly turning round she was terror-stricken by observing a rough looking man approaching her. She screamed for help and made for the street door, closely pursued by the robber, who came up with her in the hall, dealt her a blow on the head which all but deprived her of concionsness. When on the ground she received other severe blows ; and the murderer, in all probability thinking that the lady was dead, deliberately rolled her up in the sheet and dragged her to the smoking-room, where she was left lying bleeding on the floor. The robber or robbers then proceeded to look for plunder. Two boxes were broken open, and two valuable watches and LH in money abstracted from them. It was evident the perpetrator or perpetrators had to make a hasty retreat, as they did not disturb articles very portable and of great value which were within their reach. On the servants returning, the alarm was at onca

I given, and medical aid was promptly avail- ' able for tho injured lady, who was found to ho in a most deplorable state. It I s supposed that this robbery and attempted murder wore tho doings of a gang of returned convicts.