GAROTTING AND ROBBERY AT CHRISTCHURCH.

Evening Star, Issue 4001, 21 December 1875, Page 2

GAROTTING AND ROBBERY AT CHRISTCHURCH.

The following are the particulars of the garotting case at Riccarten, referred to in our telegrams yesterd iy • —On returning irom town on Sivurday night, Guttler, who resides by himself, fell asleep in a chair, and was roweed by the door being broken in, -ait before ho could turn round to ascertain the cause, a monkey jacket wan thrown over his head. On resisting this treatment, tht men, of whom ho judged there wero two, severely ill-treatod him until ho became quiet, when one of then proceeded to an inner room and took the whole of Cutler's money from the mantelpicee. Cutler wag in the habit of keeping Ids money m the house, instead of hanking it. ami tae thieves must have possessed an intimate Knowledge ot all the circumstances, us they went stiaight to the place wbsrs tba money was kept. Having secured the plunder, the thieves at once cleared off, and Cutler PbMrV r \ H . me , d Cant - v ’’b° came to Christchurch tor| nodical assistance and tr> In foira the police of the affair. Dr Doyle went out at oncoaud attend*! Cutler’s w..u..„e <rf wh;eh there were eight or ten o ; the head, but fortunately n- ne serious. Cutler's house is only about fif l y yards from the main toad.