BURGLAR AS MASSEUR
MINISTERS TO VICTIM STRANGE AMERICAN STORY (Received October 15, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK. Oct. 14 A telegram from Waltham, Massachusetts, states that at a Court hearing of a charge of armed robbery against Kobert Ulricli, aged 25, tho prosecution said a leading insurance man named Cronin awoke and groped on a bedside table for a medicine bottle. A voice from the darkness, alleged to have been that of Ulricli, commanded him to "atop right there." Cronin replied: "I have not got a gun. This drawer is fdlcd with medicines." The burglar asked what was tho matter and Cronin replied that he had heart and sinus trouble. Thereupon the burglar said: "You need inassago of tho nerve centre at the back of your neck. Let mo show you." Tho intruder then skilfully massaged Cronin's neck. Cronin tokl the police he felt so much better that ho did not begrudge tho few dollars tho man stole.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22861, 16 October 1937, Page 15
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