PENSIONER ROBBED
ATTACK BY NIGHT ESCAPE OF ASSAILANTS (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Left lying on the ground by two assailants who made off after assaulting and robbing him last nigHt.'Hugh Twiddle, a war-pensioner, aged 47 years, of Glen Eden, was admitted to the Auckland Hospital suffering from an injury to an eye and extensive cuts to his face.
The assault took place outside the Kauri Timber Company’s premises in Fanshawe street, at an ill-lighted portion of the road.
A watchman ip the timber yard telephoned to the police, but no trace of the assailants was found.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20085, 3 November 1939, Page 4
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98PENSIONER ROBBED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20085, 3 November 1939, Page 4
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