LIFE IN AMERICA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 13, 13 December 1883, Page 2

LIFE IN AMERICA.

.<• ■ • Robbery jmd Attempted Mprderi .';', The San Francisco correspondent iff r tKe'^trekteffdHetald writes-r—Aibor-rible choking ajfair took place m a ftbuse at midday. A woman went into, her bedroom to take money enough; out. of a drawer to pay her rent, and went so to do. Two mtyg, from the street, 5 lad seen the toansaction, and, watching heir, go out, they encored the window, tyhidh was at the back of the house, intending ' to take what she had left. The poor woman returned before they liad accomplished their design, and when she entered heirdom, was seized by the meW, and gagged;- < r fhfey then tore bff her lacje collag; $nd fied/fit so tight; rifcnd) her neck_that.fne speedily became un-i conscious,-; whUe ( the jW*e£ches : departed with her Jb'ooty.— £1 4s, arid a gold coin; worth £§, , After the; jvoiuju^': partially revived, and,, crawling |a,Uie/ "heaitof the^taUs^irolfe^i down them into $? arras of, he^ l^tle jsop, jalmost, \ ea ,f . . $»* b P£ #**<& undk tlje knot ; uw-hen ho foand out wh&t waCtiKe master, .but f4ile^ Then jie:' h^d to search ' for" . scissors^, and was long a ero,' he cjould get the point below ihejkic/^ noyr'- sunken " into the swpire^flliim^t/^t %ally cut it. She was drawing' ncr last j breath as the boy cut loose the tie, hut of air iito the-, lungabronght her to, : Though 'tHia^iappeUe3sdiafl weeka^ ago; the: wjon?an : i«j just, .-.oti^ of ganger, .