YOUNG MAN ATTACKED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 1 September 1934, Page 7

YOUNG MAN ATTACKED

DRAGGED INTO MOTOR-CAR AND DRUGGED (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, 30th August. A young man has reported to the police that he was inveigled into a motor-car on a recent night, assaulted, and left in a vacant section. His story is that as he was walking along Hansen street about 8 p.m., he was hailed by a man in a closed car drawn up at the side of the road. He crossed the street and spoke to the man, who asked him if he would have a look at something inside the car. By that time he had seen that the car contained four men. The next thing he knew was that lie was seized, and a handkerchief saturated with chloroform or some such drug was clamped over his mouth. When he came to about three hours later he found himself lying in a vacant section in the vicinity of the Winter Show building. He reached his home with difficulty, and was confined to his bed for some days.

The assault appears to have been completely motiveless, as the young man was not robbed.