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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 508, 17 April 1933, Page 3

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BOY'S REMARKABLE STORY AFTER DASH FOR HOME. * OUTRACE A MYSTERY. Following a yemarkable istory hy ia 12-year-old hoy that he was lured into a wood and brutally attacked, police and villagers in the neighbourhood of Aldershot comhined forces in a search for a mysterious motor cyclist (says a London paper). The victim in the episode, which he related when he reached home in a distres'sed condition, was Eonald Victor Waite, of Ash, Surrey. He described his assailant as being 5ft lOin in height,r thick-set, clean shaven, and wearing a cap, fawn-coloured macldntosh with belt ia.nd a new pair of gauntlets. j The) hoy declared that while walkI ing over Ash Rangeis a man riding a motor cycle combination stopped him and asked to be directed to Mytchett. "He said he would give me sixpence if I showed him the way," proceeded Waite. "I wanted a hair-cut, and thought the money would be useful, so I agrieed. "I rode in the sideoar, and when we reached a hill I got out and showed him the way, and waited for him I to pay me. Instead he said in a horj rible voice, like an American, 'Oh, ! no you don't!' He lifted me into the sidecar and drove iaway at a great Ispeed. "When we came to Cfown Prince Woods, near Pirbright, the man lifted me out of the sidecar, and led me into ; tba woods. J "I became frightened and began to scream. He said, "If you scream again it will be your last moment.' Bound with Braces. "I tried to struggle with him, but he threw me on the ground. He put a petrol rag in my mouth to stop my shouting and, taking my braces and tba laces out of my shoes, he bound my hands behind my back. "All the time he was doing this he kept kicking me, so I kicked him I back. I became almost unconscious, [ but I remembered seeing him open a j big knife. I pretended I was dying ! by groaning. 'The man -then looked at me in a strange way, put my coat over my head and went away." Waite added that it was dark when he recovered. With a pocket-knite he was able to cut the bonds and dash for home. When examined hy a doctor the boy was found to be suffering badly from shock. He appeared to have been hitten and struck in the face.