BEATEN AND ROBBED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27386, 11 May 1950, Page 8

BEATEN AND ROBBED

Savage Attack On Old Man PA AUCKLAND, May 10. An old man was brutally beaten and robbed by two men at his home at Mount Roskill shortly after 9 o’clock tonight. The victim of the outrage is Mr James McPherson, aged 76. Mr McPherson was dozing on his bed and the house was in darkness when two men entered his bedroom and attacked him savagely. They dragged him from his be£ into a passageway, where they continued to assault him. “I was lying in the passage trying to defend myself while the men beat me,” said Mr McPherson. “I kept shouting out for help.” Mr McPherson’s left eye was blackened and his eyebrow was cut. There was also a cut over his left ear, which was badly swollen. His pyjamas were bloodstained. The men, who wore heavy overcoats with the collars turned up, then took a wallet from Mr McPherson’s trousers. which were in the bedroom. Mr McPherson said the wallet contained only some private papers. Something evidently alarmed the men, who made off without searching the rest of the house. Mr McPherson, dazed and bleeding, staggered to a neighbour’s house further down the road to give the alarm. The men- gained entrance through the back aoor, which was left unlocked for Mr McPherson’s son. who was working late at his shop in the city. They left through the front door.