SENSATION AT WHANGAREI

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8354, 14 February 1913, Page 7

SENSATION AT WHANGAREI

WOMAN GAGGED BY TWO YOUNG MEN. Press Association. WHANGAREI, February 13. The police were informed last night that a woman named Marvin had been found bound and gagged in her own home. The woman states that at 8 o’clock a young man came to the door with a note for her husband, purporting to come from the superintendent of the fire brigade. Her husband being a member of the team which left to-day for Wanganui to take part in the demonstration she thought the message was genuine. ■ The note asked her husband to go to see tho superintendent for five minutes. After her husband left the woman went to her bedroom, and was there seized by two young men. A handkerchief was thrust into her mouth and money was demanded or the men would choke tho life out of her. A heavy picture cord was placed round her throat and pulled till it nearly strangled her. She told her assailants that the money was in a chest of drawers. Notes amounting to £ll and 16s in silver are missing. Three months previously the same woman states that she had an encounter with the same men, when £3 and some jewellery wore stolen. When the husband came home half an hour later he found his wife unconscious on the floor.