FELL AMONG THIEVES
MAN’S SERIOUS INJURIES. [per press association.] AUCKLAND, January 2. Saturated with blood, which flowed freely from severe wounds in his head, a visitor to the city. Philip Andrew Moore, of Tiniroto, near Gisborne, laboriously made his way from Victoria. Park to a nearby shop shorty after 7 o'clock on Friday evening, saying he had been attacked by two men. one of whom had hit him on the lead with a bottle.
He was verging on a. state of collapse as he approached the shop, and said that, one of the men had held him while the other savegely assaulted him and before leaving him they robbed him of his watch and chain and nurse containing about £3 10/-. The assault, a particularly savage one, is considered one of the worst committed in Auckland for some time. Although it was not dark at the time, there were few people near the park. Moore was taken to hospital in a serious condition.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 January 1938, Page 4
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