MURDEROUS ASSAULT AND ROBBERY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 42, 17 February 1903, Page 2

MURDEROUS ASSAULT AND ROBBERY

PER PttE« ASSOCIATION. Dunedis, February 16. ' Thomas R 'id, a elm kin the employ of Sargood, Son, and li>eo, was this afternoon murderously essaulte), an-f ' robbed of X 286., The moe*y to pay ' the employees in the firm's boo; factoy > ia t»ken from tbo bin* to the ware- [ h uso and'hire made up into p»rcel<.j It was Reid's duty to tike the money to the factory, wliijh ia situated be bind the r<ilway s f a ion. Evidently . someone who know tha routine of the businesi w-tited for Raid nnl, ns he passed a vacant sacti m ne r the fac--1 tory, oime out through a hol< i i the fence, struck Raid a saining bl w from behind, and then pu ting \ sa k over his hai<i el-arid out with th .£286 he was carrying, R id, who i« 23 years of ag-*, was later fju A io a semi conscious muddi-m and r moved to the hospi al, wheru he ha< relapsed into unc uisc ousness without having sp>ken. Ho has a cut, on the back of his hea 1, evidently prolu ed by a b'unt instrument. T*om m wcrasean aiont the locality during the d»y, and t,l,e p:licd are miking inqui ies, bu". so far no arris's have bjtn m ..te. Later. dp to the present no ar/c ts hav* been mad?. Rtid is still umb'o o \ speak coherently, bit it is d mbtful if ' he will be able to d s ri'oe his asai- i ants : Two mon were s en about the looili y with a h'.'avy spring c.rt wh.'ch his been found, the borne big at luy* in Vogel-straet this evening, aidbai < apptroot'y been driven a onsider.ble i distance It hxs been r-p-red that on ' Saturday, at Outram, a hois) wiss olen • from one p'acn, a cut from another, j and haruesi from a thin). I>, i-, po . < sutnad the musing property hj.« beei. t diic.vered, and that t e thieves ate j idHßticil with those ouce.ned io the , assault on Reid. . ,