BOUND AND GAGGED.
WOMAN ROBBED BY HER SERVANTS. v
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Sep, 16. The story of how she was bound, gagged and robbed by a man and a woman engaged as butler and cook re* spectively was told in the Woking Police .Court by the wife : of Colonel Edwin Richardson. •*'■ She gave evidence that while she was having luncheon alone she-was suddenly enveloped in a blanket, tied to her chair,' gagged and menaced by revolvers. Meantime jewellery and ■ other valuables were collected valued at more than £BOO. The butler stripped her of all the jewellery she was wearing . and then left. , She was so terrified by .threats that she did not inform the police for two days. The man and the woman were remanded for a week.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 17 September 1925, Page 5
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