OLD LADY GAGGED AND BOUND

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 193, 9 May 1908, Page 12

OLD LADY GAGGED AND BOUND

. SAFE ROBBERY AND ASSAULT. A sensation was caused in Covent Garden, London, on March 21, by the discovery of the wife of Mr. A. Isaacs, a well-known fruit salesman, gagged, bound, and unconscious, at her home in Long Acre., Mrs. Isaacs is 74 years of age. and the treatment she received, has rendered her condition serious. At three o'clock Mr. Isaacs left_ tho_ house to begin-work at the-market. Hit wife was then safely in bed. Some time afterwards a daughter found her mother gagged and bound' in a passago, whero she had evidently crawlea from the bedroom. The house had been entered, and from the safe, which stands in the bedroom, money to the amount of about £116 had been taken. Nobody was actually seen either to enter or leave the premises. Immediately a medical man was sent for, and it was found that the old lady's face and body were badly bruised. Her hands had been tied across her body, a sock was used as a gag, and she had received other injuries. It appears that Mr. Isaacs had placed the money and some valuable jowellery in the safe, but in his hurry the thief dropped most of the latter on the floor, and also overlooked some other jewellery on the washstand and dressing table. The money was all in gold. Mrs. Isaacs, it is ' stated,. had recentlv withdrawn £2000 from a bank, and it iB thought that the thiof imagined that this was in the house, but, as a matter of fact, it had been invested in Consols at once. A duplicate key to tho house had recently been lost mysteriously, and as mysteriously turned up in its placo a few days later, tho suspicion being that tho robber had captured it to got a copy cut.