WOMAN BOUND IN A CHAIR.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XVII, Issue 1728, 21 September 1922, Page 2

WOMAN BOUND IN A CHAIR.

At Highgate Police Court, London, Francis Gray, 23, agent, of Pembury Road, Tottenham, and Archibald Trendell, 22, engineering student, of Hilldrop Crescent, Holloway, were charged with stealing articles tb the value of £IOO, the property of Jacob Goldsworthy, of Fortis Green Road, Muswell Hill.

Mr Wells, for the prosecution, said that on January 10, in the absence of her husband, Mrs Goldsworthy gave a musical party, to which the accused men were invited, The party -broke up at 11 o'clock, and, Mrs Goldsworthy, being alone in the house, suggested to the defendants that they should stay for the night. They slept in the spare bedroom. After breakfast in the morning the defendants placed her in a chair, to which they bound her, and gagged her with a serviette. At first she thought it was a joke. They then left the house, and she afterwards missed property to the value of £IOO. When Mrs Goldsworthy informed the police about the affair, she made a mis-statement, as she feared that her husband would be annoyed. Instead of saying it was the guests who had committed the robbery, she said it had been done by two men who came to see to the telephone. Mrs Goldsworthy, in cross-examinar tion by Mr Groebel, for the defence, denied that when the defendants slept at her house on another occasion she visited their room during the night. "I went in. to kiss them good-night. I am a Bohemian," she added. The witness admitted having written several letters to Gray, and said she had been indiscreet in regard to this. She denied emphatically that she had arranged to be bound in the chair. The case was adjourned for a week.