A Serious Charge.
A brutal assault on an elderly woman occurred in Wellington on Thursday night says the N.Z. Times. It appears that while Mis Koch, a respectable woman 68 years of age, who lives at Taitville, was passing along Victoria street about a quarter past 10 o'clock, she was seized upon by a band of about a dozen larrikins and carried bodily, despite her struggles, to an opening in Chew's laae, running from Willis street to Victoria street* There she vt&B held down and gaggod, and while some kept watch the others cpngregrated round, and two, she alleged, committed a criminal < ffence upon her. Ab this stage, two young men. Messrs R. Uridge and Linley, who wero passing by, were attracted by the noise; and saw the poor woinnn in the hatids of her assailants. They at once informed another passer-by of what was going on, but by this time the gang had decamped. Constable Bishop, being informed of the occurrence, succeeded in arresting a young fellow who gave the name of James Wright, and conveyed him to the Police Station. There he was positively identified by Mrs Koch as one of the two who had actually committed the offence upon her, and on that charge he will be brought up at the Magistrate's Court.
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Manawatu Herald, 27 October 1894, Page 3
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216A Serious Charge. Manawatu Herald, 27 October 1894, Page 3
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