REPORTED OUTRAGE AT THE HUTT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3114, 28 January 1889, Page 2

REPORTED OUTRAGE AT THE HUTT.

•* ■■■•. ■ ; . , A REMARKABLE FICTION,

Early on Saturday morning a t;reat sensation was created in .the Lower Hutt township by a rumor tbatduring the previous flight', aa outrage iad been' committed under especially brutal circumstances upon a girl in the employment of Mr 6. H.; Scajes, the well known-commission agent of this city, who resides at" tlio Hutt. As might .be expected, the matter was eagerly discussed all over the town-, ship.. Numbers; of people ;whp slept soundly all through the night remembered haying heard strange noises, while others recollected. seeing disguised individuals of a hang-dog type slink shamefacedly about in- tho fields, The,excitement.was increased when two distinguished;' members' of the detective force—to -wit;' Messrs Kirbyand Campbell—arrived, by. an early train and proceeded to Mr Scales' house; Information had;beengivon by -Constable. .Harriett Thomson, by telegraph that morning that an outrage had been committed, and in consequence. DetectJTes Campbell and Kirby were jat once despatched .• Hutt; v Upon arrival at the house of Mr Scales, 'tho detectivesi interviewedthVgirl, whose name is'-Lydia Elliottj" and ;who is about in a highly nervous condition];'bat able to make : coherently,; a, statement to off Friday evening7Mr;andMrsScah»?;lbfli;/the bouse op avißit'tps6me;fnends,-leav: { ing her; o'- ;?»' servanMoynan^Bamie^

' „'•"'* — H .:v' ' % home, Sim wont J r to, bedf a*"" r '» -' few minutes*after lnlf-past] teiS. £a »<- About eleven o'clock, hearing a noise"" j<v on the stain, she lit a and ( ,'< jumped out of bed. As she did so, |W two men entered the room with a ( Jr^ lanteiii, and one of tbem at once blew ?' out her h*ht. One of these men, was tall, and the other short, both wor»> Chinese masks, and were dressed alike in moleskin trousers and litdit < shirts, neither, 'having coat or vest ' The tall man said to her, " I would kill you, but that would not hint you, I will do something that will ruin youi chiiaUci." (She theft went on to descubo the outrage, which ahe said, was comoutted-by the ' man while the other lay on her chest)," The tall man then took a piece of string'' ' out of his trousers pockots ind lied k kef by tho wiisjsaud waists to the iion bedstead. The "little man'!, took a piece of tape from her workboxfind tied her to tho bwfetead by the ankles, and feet. The tall raun thereupon cut ?'{' her hair off with a pair of scissors, j ami threw some water over 'legs and feot. He then ran downstairs, while ' mKL -\, the sboi t man jumped out of the win- ™<Js jdow, Sho did not know either of the / ' > I men, and would not be able to - , identify them, j Mr and Mrs 'Scales corroborated ," | the qirl's ttoi/ to a certain extent. -They ntuined home at a quarter to one, and as they neaied the houso beards scienms emanating* from the servants bedroom. Mrs deales upon < < going into the coom, found the girl,' apparently tied by the feet and hands - ■ to the bedstead, with her hair lying ' on the flooi, and a quantity of water lying around her feet, The boy Norris, who slept the sound sleep of' •"»' , the youthful, was at once awakened. J , , and for the first time heard of the affair. ' Tho deteotives carefully examined the window and ground ill round the house, brit could find no trace of men La having been about. The string with which the girl had been bound was then shown to Mr Scales, who identified it as having been tied round a parcel he had lecently received fiora England. The wily detectives tried the length of the string and found it was not long enough to go round the , girl's waist. Coming to the conclti- J^' sion that there must be something ' ' wiong, they then told her sho would have to be examined by a doctor. She strongly objected, eued, and then ' admitted that the story was a fibii- - cation. She was soiry, sho said, for having told such falsehoods,' but duiing the night she had a nightmare - and hearing the dogs baik she'got ' ' frightened, and in her flight tied her J self up. She got the tape from her ' / workbox, and the string from a chair in her room, on which it was lying, i Thus ended one of the most remarkublo CHSes ever inspected by detectives.— N.Z. Times,