Crime iu Melbourne.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3468, 25 March 1890, Page 3

Crime iu Melbourne.

One Pay'a RecordTho Evening .Standard of March 5 contains in its second edition the fol, lowing araoDgst several other similar , . eases: ! A cook named John Dobbin was 1 assaulted by a trio of ruffians in , Bourko street, near Swanton street, I shortly before midnight yesterday, j Bobbery was the aim of the assail- • ants, and after making an ineffectual < attempt to snatch Dobbin's chain, one j of them struck him a severe blow 011 1 tho mouth, knocking hiin down. They j then despoiled the recumbent man of his watch, chain, and a purse con- l tainiug seven £1 notes. The scoun- j drelly footpads then mado good their escape just ultimo, for a number of ' peiMiaii!, who were attracted' by j the unwonted scene, camo to the rescuo. 1 In a riglit-of-way off LoiibMg Btreet, abopt 8 o'clock yesterday morning, another crime of the same f character' was committed, The victim is ut fcr.;ignor named Joseph c Zagabria, who follows a sca-faring « calling, Ho has only Ijeen off his j ship for a few days, and was consequently innocent of the danger lie

was running in parading the streets at such an untimely hour, Tho ™ offenders were a man and a female of Amazonian type, and they seemed to have been dogging their intended victim's footsteps, for, as soon as ho reaohed * dark spot ho was attacked. The male assailant caught him by by the throat while the female deftly turned the seaman's pocket inside out, and secured nine sovereigns and some silver coins, Another seamen named John Holmes lias to bomoan his lolly in perambulating the streets at unwholeBorne hours, Ho is employed on board the tt.M.S, Nelson, and on Monday night bo chanced to be in Thistle thwaite-street, South Melbourne, ivhero some scamp embraced a favourable opportunity of robbing . him of his watohand some Bilver, valued at £6 15s.