The Melbourne Outrages.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 246, 14 March 1888, Page 10

The Melbourne Outrages.

Mklhouuse March 1. Last nitihfc a married woman named Catherine Haydon left u public house ab Oakleigh, in company with her husband. They were set upon by four young men, who said they were constables, and had come to arrest the woman. They carried her about a quarter of a mile down a creek and criminally assaulted her. At about two o'clock tin's morning a constable with two civilians appeared on tho scene, and succeeded in securing ono man, and later on the police arrested another. The woman was found to have been brutally outraged. Her neck was swollen with throttling to prevent her calling out. When the nion seized her, the husband believing their story that they were constables, proceeded in tho direction of the lock-up, but being under the influence of drink, he fell down and went to sleep. D. Boyd and J. C. Muir, the first and second mate respectively of the barquo Fiery Cro&^, were arrested to-day for a criminal outrage on Jane Cummings, a married woman, 40 years of age, on the night of the 12th instant. It is aUeged that they took the woman on board the barque, and later on she was found on tho wharf bleeding from a scalp wound and other injuries. She was taken to the hospital and examined, when the nature of the outrage was discorered. She refused to give any information till to-day, when the two men were arrested, and her dying depositions were taken, which implicated four men. The men accused of outraging Mrs Cummings are Muir, Boyd and Bark the first and second mates and tho carpenter respectively of the 3chooner Fiery Cross.