BURGLAR IN A BEDROOM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 20 August 1907, Page 4

BURGLAR IN A BEDROOM.

WOMAN 7 TELLS HTM WITH fl SOLDEMXfi IRON. - - • London, June 30. Mrs Wintle, the wife of an engineer, of (Igboume, told a sensational story to the magistrates at the Marlliorough County Petty Sessions on Saturday.when Wililam John Roves, a stable assistant. was committed for trial for burglary. Mrs Wintle said that on the previous Sunday night, when her husband was in Ijmdon. she was start led to s ( .<> a man. whom she identified as lioyvs. by liev liedside in the act of striking a match. She screamed. anlT the man seized her by the throat. She screamed again, and he took hold of her mouth and nose. There was a struggle, fieiting out of lied shp struck the man on the head with a soldering iron. He fell to the floor. She went downstairs and reported the matter to a constable, who had heard tho scream? and come to the house. While she went to give the alarm the man recovered and got out-of the house through the window. The constable said that after lie had heard Mr* Wintle's statement he met four stable lads and Roves. There was Mood on Roves' head and the marks of a blow, which lie said he had received from a man he had met on the road.