WELLINGTON ROBBERY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17437, 8 April 1931, Page 8

WELLINGTON ROBBERY

INJURED MAN’S STORY FELLED WITH SANDBAG (per Tress Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Although nothing appears to have been stolen from the Working Men's Club, the motive undoubtedly was robbery. ’The manager’s room was broken into and the roll-top desk forced open, but nothing taken. The safe does notappear to have been tampered with, and tlie tills and casli registers in the bar-room were untouched. Interviewed in hospital to-day, “ the porter, Madigan, said the attack took place in a jmssage off the main hall on the ground floor of llio club. He saw both men, but before bo could speak one hit him on the head with a sandbag. Ho fell down, and when be tried to get up the man struck again. Me endeavored to crawl away, but was hit again. Madigan remembers llie men blindfolding him and tying him up. but lie then lost consciousness. When he came to he'was lying in the furnace room about. 50 yards from where the assault took place. He managed to release himself and break a window to attract attention. After Madigan had been struck the first time he asked the men not to knock him about. The man with the sandbag replied: “You have got to have it.” Madigan thinks the men had a knowledge of the run of the place, because one said, when tying him up: “Let’s carry him down to the furnace room.” Madigan's condition to-day is satisfactory.