AUCKLAND SENSATION

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8481, 16 July 1913, Page 6

AUCKLAND SENSATION

BOARDINGHOUSE CRIME MAN BEATEN AND BOBBED OB' £IOO. Press Association. ‘AUCKLAND, July 15. Something of a sensation was caused at the corner of Pitt street and Karangahapo road at about 11 o’clock this morning, when a cry for help camo from a man as ho rushed out of a boardinghouse. The man was in a state of great excitement, and his face was smothered in blood.

He declared that he had been robbed of £IOO by two men, and indicated tha direction in which the men had decamped. The police were immediately comma-' nicatcd with, and to Detective Holiia the man subsequently told his story. His name, he said, was John Kins, and ho had recently come from Wellington. At the boardinghouse he had mad® tho acquaintance of two men, and yesterday, when a remittance of £IOO reached him from Wellington, then® men were aware of the fact.

During tho day they obtained a small loan from him, and this morning they again approached him for a further advance, which he declined, whereupon they assaulted him. He was violently attacked by the two men, who almost beat him to insensibility, and then robbed him of his money. King was attended to by Dr Coldicutt, who, after dressing several wounds about his face, ordered his removal to hospital. The police have the matter in hand