ANIMALS KILLED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 285, 2 December 1931, Page 3

ANIMALS KILLED.

PROWLER OF THE NIGHT-

iySTERV OF PARAPARAUMU.

BIPvDS HANGED ON LINE

MAN.-'.ATTACKED IN COTTAGE.

(By 'lelcrrrapli.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, this day

•Property destruction and the killing .; animals by an unknown night prowler "iiitinues at intervals in the township of ruaparaumu, and, despite the efforts of ''.lite and residents, the mystery, which '•already of several years' standing, Jeraairis unsolved. \- 0 t lon T ag° a fowlyard was .entered ...,*,l a:i'Uiiib.er of birds killed, and hanged !■'• t i ie j r necks in a row on a clothes ''fie A pig was killed one still night within: a short distance of several ""This latter incident supports the local theory that the pi'owlei; is a person such • a trapper, experienced in the rapid of animals. It is, of course, difficult to kill a pig silently _ One morning a dog was found hanging with' wire twisted about its neck. On "riotlicr night a haystack was set on fire' and not long ago. a glasshouse was entered and plants killed with poisonous "litis reported that an elderly man livintf alone was attacked in his cottage. The "intruder, it is stated, blew out the ]i<rht, but when the occupant showed iHit'tlie attacker departed as silently had. come. A; vigilance committee was formed, IUiU patrols organised, but as this proved ineffective the committee was disbanded.