ALLEGED ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 180, 29 July 1904, Page 2

ALLEGED ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.

THE CEMETERY BRIDGE INCIDENT. This afternoon the Auckland detective police, after making investigations into the report of Mrs Anne Jaffrey, that she was violently assaulted and : robbed in broad daylight on the Ceme-! t-ery Bridge, charged a young man named Harold Beaumont Harrop with being concerned in the affair. He was j committed for trial this morning by Mr Blonifield, S.M., on a charge of false pretences at Panmure arid sliopbreaking at Newton, and subsequently an information was laid against him that on July 18th he did rob Anne Jafi'rey of a I purse containing £3, and at the time of such robbery did use personal violence. Mrs Jeffrey's story is that when crossing the bridge in the afternoon a young man seized her by the throat, threw her to the ground, and snatched her purse from her hand. Then he bolted towards the cemetery, but finding that he could net enter, he returned, crossed the bridge, and disappeared in the scrub in Cemetery Gully. When the accused came before Mr Blomfield on the chnrge this afternoon Chu-f Detective Marsack applied for a remand until Wednesday. Harrop told the stipendiary that he was q.iit" unaware of what he was allegod' to have done. He was remanded in custody until Wednesday.