SAND-BAGGING IN AUCKLAND.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8550, 7 October 1907, Page 3

SAND-BAGGING IN AUCKLAND.

By Telegraph—Press Association.

AUCKLAND, October 5. It has just transpired that a young man named Albert Henley, an employee of the London Dairy Company, was assaulted in a serious manner at Newmarket on the night of Dominion Day. Henley had almost reached the hoarding-house where he resided in Victoria Crescent, when, it is stated, he heard -a noise behind him. In the act of looking round he xeceived a heavy blow (it is presumed from a sand-bag), on the back of the head, which knocked him senseless. When found, Henley was still unconscious; his arms were bound behind his back, his feet tied together, and a gag, consisting of a piece of muslin was thrust into his mouth. He is stated to have teen in imminent danger of choking, and it was quite half-an-hour before he regained his senses. The fact that a '■ Diece of rope similar to that used to bind the man was found outspread on the railway line at a level crossing a few yards from the scene, has led to the theory being formed that Henley's murder was contemplated. The police, however, do not share this •opinion. Henley has not yet recovered from his injuries, and is still in the doctor's hands. Robbery was apparently not the motive of the crime as a pum of money in Henley's pockets remained untouched. The assault was committed under the full glare of an adjacent street lamp, and only a few yards from a room in the boarding-house wherein were several boarders. The police have the matter in hand. Other stories of sand-bagging incidents have been rife of late, some ladies having been said to have been attacked in the Remuera district.