ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE
ATTACK ON PICTON RESIDENT.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.
Blenheim, December 28. A robbery with violence was alleged to have occurred at Picton on Christmas D! J ’ C. Wiese,y a Picton resident, was accosted early in the afternoon on the foreshore by a woman who stated that she wanted to have a wash. Wiese took her to his home. Later a man appeared on the scene and savagely Wiese, rendering him unconscious. is 63 years old. A sum of £9 was removed from the victims pocket. ihe pair decamped in a borrowed dinghy and commenced to row down the harbour. A constable, on becoming aware of the facts, gave chase and captured the pair. They were brought before Justices of the Peace and remanded till January 2.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 81, 30 December 1929, Page 7
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128ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 81, 30 December 1929, Page 7
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