A PORTER ATTACKED
ASSAULT BY MASKED MEN. ASSAILANTS ESCAPE. (Per Presi Association.—Copyright.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The smashing of a window on the ground tloor of the Workingmen’s Club, in Mercer Street, and cries for help, at 2 o’clock this morning, attracted the attention of three passersby and a constable, who, on investigating the happening, found that the night porter of the club, named Madrigan, had been assaulted by two masked men. Madrigan was entering a side door at the foot of the stairway inside the main passage of the club, with a bucket of water, when he was suddenly attacked by two men. His assailants hit him three times on the back of the head. They then blindfolded him, tied up his arms and legs, and dragged him to the back of the building. The robbers forced a door leading off the bar to the office. The safe does not appear to have been interfer'ed with, although the motive of the men was undoubtedly robbery. Madrigan was taken to hospital. The manager’s room was also broken into. The roll-topped desk was forced open, but nothing was taken. The till and cash-registers in the bar-room were not touched. Interviewed in hospital today, Madrigan said ho eaw both men, but before! he could speak one Hit him on the head with a sandbag. He fell down, and when he tried to got up the men struck him again. He endeavoured to crawl away, but was hit once more. Madrigan remembers the men. blindfolding him and tying him up, but he then lost consciousness. When he came to he was lying in the furnace room, about 50 yards away from where the assault took place. He managed to release himself, and to break the window to attract, attention. After Madrigan had been struck the first time, he asked the men not to knock him about. The man with the sandhag replied “You have got to have it.’’ Madrigan thinks the men had a knowledge of the club, because one of them said, when tying him up, “Let’s carry him dowm to the furnace room.” Madrigan’s condition today is satisfactory.
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Northern Advocate, 8 April 1931, Page 6
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