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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2113, 22 June 1907, Page 3

LADIES’ EARS CUT OFF. BRUTAL ROBBERIES BY HOOLIGANS. Paris, April 7.—The latest exploits of the hooligans of Marseilles has struck terror into tho heart of every woman in that city. A few nights ago a woman on her •way Lome was suddenly, approached on tho Quai du Vieux Port by a stranger and asked to hand over her gold ear-rings. She started back in alarm, , and.:a minute later screamed and fell fainting to the footpath. When she was picked up by a policeman it was found that the lobe oj her left ear had been cut off, and the ear-ring with it. . _ . A lady wearing a pair of pearl ear-rings was accosted by a well-dres-sed man in a quiet street and -asl-:< to give up her ear-rings. She ottered resistance and screamed. In an instant her left ear was cut entirely off, and the thief ran away with the ear Another woman lost both her ears Quito a number of women have been similarly robbed during the past few days. . . , Several ears have boon found, and M. Cavialler, the Marseilles juge destruction, has had them preserved in alcohol. In oue case the assailant has been captured, and .is to be tried before the . Assizes at Aix, where the ear will he produced as evidence. One Tesult of the crime is that the women of Marsmlles have now begun to discard ear-rings altogether.

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