TORTURED BY BURGLARS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2068, 14 August 1885, Page 2

TORTURED BY BURGLARS.

A New York 'Times'special of July 14 from Pittsburg (Pa.) says:— A party of masked men entered the liouao of Leonard Bonner in Baldwin township on Friday' night, and gagged and cruelly tortured tho members of tho family until Bonner dMqaed tfyj hiding pj&qe'of his money, Thfl ficilms' suffered tearful agony/ The' Jobbery I was comraitted on the'early part pf Friday night, and the, victims wero not released from their Bonds till eight o'clock Bower wm awakened by the' Wtiug it to lurti SyHpn fclje jioije psjaed l'he burglars fiad killed the dps. Border feß a«)ee'p, and when he awoke a second SP? W»-'b?4 was nwounded.by four lyotked robbers. "Get up, old tpan, and tell us where your money is/'W the spokesman, jerking him up 'into a sitting position. Bonner replied that $ had no money, and then they pulled hira clear out pf bed, and told him not to lie or they would blow, his Tfa« sqund of. hu voice awakened 'Hjj sg& mother and two -children. The woman screamed, as also did'the girls. , . Three of the men Jeffc Bonner, • and 1 ' silenced the woman apd girls by. gagging them,' and then returned to torture

Bonner. Ilcliad only his night-clothog on, and in this way he was: bound- to a' . chair and gagged. L'he lamp waa'turned MP high, anil plnccd under the chair. The. torture wis intolerable,'vand when ;tjie. 1 fiends saw him, suffer, for awhiifij tfey asked him if he was ready-to disjße the hiding-place of his money-.- He'miililJd assent, and they pulled -the lamp frdjn under him,.took the gag 'put of-'-'KiS. ■ mouth, ang Bonner told theiii that h 6;:; X'b'v" hud l,Boodol, the savings of his lifetime^' 1 4ti concealed in an old canister m the bed- , room cupboard, They, tpiiksposaession of .the money, securely tied and. gaggedi ; , ■f; 'Bonner again, and then ransacked the '. :;i) house downstairs, where they got about BOOdol worth of jewellery. They. then-:' 1$ left the house, leaving Mrs Bonner, who was over eighty years of age, tied to the bed with hor face downward, with one of her grand-daughters on each side of her. The country is being scoured fotfeie 1 robbers,