Sick Man Robbed

Hokitika Guardian, 11 March 1922, Page 4

Sick Man Robbed

LONDON, Jan 9. A story of an attack on a sick, man, followed by the theft of jewellery and money to the value! of £250, is told by Mr Reuben Levi, m money-lender, of Ca.mproad, Leeds. At 2.30 a.m., on Saturday Dr Stewart, of North-street, Leeds, was summoned to the house by William Shepherd, Mr T/Ovi’s ehaffeur. Dr Stewart found Mr Levi with a. wound 1 Vin. long on tin) forehead, contusions on the left cheek, a wound on tho upper lip, and injuries which may aflcct the sight of one eye. Tt is believed that the injuries were inflicted with a- knuckle-duster.

For tho past fortnight Air Levi has been in lied with bronchitis. He slept on the ground floor in a room adjoining his office. Shepherd, the ehaffeur, stayed in the same room to attend to him during the night. Shortly after midnight on Friday both fell asleep. Shepherd was in a chain bv the side of ;1 secretaire.

ATTACKER’S CLOYED HAND. “Not long aferwards,” said Air Levi to a Daily Ahiil reporter, “I fe)t blows on my face just like a battering ram. I cj'ied out, but somebody placed the pillow over mv fare. T hit savagely at tho gloved hand of a person who was on top of me. Eventually my assailants ceased their attack. I crawled out ol lied, shouted upstairs to my wife, and switched on the electric light.

“Shepherd was stretched out on the floor. On being roused he said he had been struck e-p the head.” Mr Levi added that lie kept th ( , keys of the safe under his pillow. They were found in the lock of the saffe, from which, said Air Levi, are missing a single-stone diamond ring, valued at £IOO a gold English lever watch, worth £4O a single-stone diamond scarf pin and stud in ease bearing the name Pearce, of Bond-street, Leeds; and an opal and diamond scarf-pin. A pair of diamond earrings is missing from tho secretaire. The back door Mr Levi said, was found unfastened, and none of the window catches was forced.

BOUND STUDENT SHOT. MONTREAL, Jam 9. A former Brooklyn merchant, am Italian, was found dead in a- store hero, having befen shot by a New York £Pm _ man. The gunman was a member of a gang of international criminals, which paid him €4,000 to kill a noted Montreal detective, Captain Savard, formerly in the city force, but now head of a private agency. Trescoli, the victim, was shot while he was sleeping. Fred Winterson, a widely known collector, was lacked to death in his home

while his family was at a theatre, and a young Ottawa University student, Raoul Delorme, was found shot in a lonely part of the outskirts of Montreal, where apparently he had been taken by motor-ear. The victim had his hands tied behind his back and his head was wrapped in towels, apparently to prevent the blood from his wounds leav- 1 ing traces in the motor-car. The police believe that Deforme was sentenced to be executed by a mysterious tribunal. He was not robbed, his money anxj watch being untouched. He was last heard of alive by his brother, the Rev. Delorme, a Montreal priest and his sister, to whom he had telephoned that he had been to a theatre and was going for a motor-car ride, adding, “Don’t worry. lam all right.”