ALLEGED GARROTTING.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 156, 4 July 1890, Page 3

ALLEGED GARROTTING.

It is now some years since garrotting has been practised in Auckland. An attempt has, however, been made to revive bhis system of robbing. Ib appears that lasb Monday evening aboub 10.30 o'clock, Mr Ah Chee was going home bo his markob gardens near bhe Domain. Suddenly he felb an arm bhrown round his neck. ' At first he was nob much alarmed, as he thought ib was only some one joking. He soon, however, found bhab ib was no joke, for his mouth began to fill wibh blood. He sbruggled violently, more especially as he felb a hand trying: to search his pockets. At bhe time he had £30 on his person. After a desperate struggle he succeeded in freeing himself from his assailant, and as ib was a moonlight night he was enabled bo recognise the man by whom he had been assaulted. Imformation of the occurrence was given to the police, and Detectives Herbert and Hughes investigated the matter. Last night they arrested a man named Frederick Irwin, alias Ferdinand Danker, on suspicion. Irwin appeared ab the Police Court this morning, before Messrs J. Baber and S. Y. Collins, justices. He was charged with having assaulted Ah Chee with inbenb to rob him. On bhe application of Inspector Broham the prisoner was remanded for a week, to allow him time to prepare the case.