A PALMERSTON MYSTERY.
WOMAN FOUND UNCONSCIOUS
ASSAULT AND ROBBERY ALLEGED. Palmerston N., May 2. An extraordinary affair in which an assault on a sleeping woman is alleged to have been made, was reported to the police to-daj. A resident of Ferguson Street, on returning from a social function on Saturday evening, was surprised to find evidence of a burglary having been committed in the room in which his wife was in bed asleep. The contents of a duchess chest were lying about the lioor, and a handbag which had contained a large sum of money was found open and empty. With difficulty lie awakened his wife, but she was unable to give an account of what had happened, though a lump on her forehead suggested that she had been given a foul blow by an intruder as she lay asleep. That afternoon, she had attended the Manawatu races, and had participated in one of the big dividends, This money had been in the handbag that the husband discovered empty.
The police are investigating.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3633, 3 May 1927, Page 2
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173A PALMERSTON MYSTERY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3633, 3 May 1927, Page 2
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