GIRL GAGGED AND BOUND

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8360, 21 February 1913, Page 9

GIRL GAGGED AND BOUND

attacked in street near hub HOME BY STRANGE MAIL LEFT UNCONSCIOUS IN RAIN LONDON. January 12. An extraordinary story of an attack on a fifteen-year-old girl, who was gagged and bound and left in an unconscious condition on a heap of bricks in a stable yard by her unknown, assailant, is engaging the attention of the Birmingham police. The victim is Louisa Taylor, of Camden street. While walking home along Camden street about 6 o'clock in the evening, she was stopped by a man who asked her where she wae going. Before she could explain, to him that she was near home, he slipped a handkerchief over her month, tied her hands and legs with a thick rope, and after dragging her a few yards threw her down on a heap of -brinks in the corner of a dafk etableyard. ' She became unconscious. and remained in that condition for three hours, the while exposed to a torrential downpour of rain. The house in which she lives with her mother, brothers, and sisters is only next door, and it was her moans and cries that, attracted assistance. Her dreadful plight wae discovered by her sister. May, and it was not until some time After that she was sufficiently recovered to tell her story. Tn an interview the girl declared that her assailant was a complete stranger to her. At the time he spoke to her the street—which generally is busy and populous — was practically deserted. - -The man is described as of medium height and build, between thirty and forty years of ago, and with a slight moustache. He wore a brown peaked cap, a brown overcoat and a muffler. Ho had a cut on his face. No arrest has been made.