HORSE MAIMING CRAZE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 595, 20 August 1913, Page 5

HORSE MAIMING CRAZE.

PEVALENT IN BLACK COUNTRY. 13 .v Tolu:r;ipil.~ Vv< -- .\ --""i ;u inn- l.'oi>yri:;!U Received this day, 9. London, Tuesday. Agriculturists and horse owners in the Black Country are alarmed at the renewal of horse maiming at Wednesbury and Darlaston. A post card has been received at. Wolverhampton, signed "Darby, O.piain of the Myrlty Gang,'" declarer, the next outrage v. ill be at WolverhDiiipton. Mr Newton, teller ci the To Awn.■ mufu branch of the Union Lank ot Australasia, who bleeps in the temporary premise occupied by the bank, was awakened in the early l;oi;!P oi Saturday morning liy the foo!skT |S of burglar. Mr Newton drew the bank revolver from under his pillow, ami challenged the intruder, luii the man. whose form was not easily dis-tni-guishablo in the darkness, made r. dive for one of the back rooiri?, and escaped through a small window which had evidently been his mean. 1 - of entrance. Mr Newton's bed Was in the banking ehumbor. which Was naturally the objective. The police were duly in formed. but so far no arrest has been made.

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