ANOTHER OUTRAGE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12016, 19 March 1920, Page 5

ANOTHER OUTRAGE.

aged man violently ATTACKED AT ROTORUA Per Press Association Rotorua, March 18. At about one o’clock this morning. Robert Radnor, 60 years, employed by the Tourist Department,, and living alone near the Postmaster Bath, was attacked by two masked men who knocked at his door asking for matches. He refused to open the door, but , opened a small window and placed matches within their reach. They again asked him to open the'door, threatening to break it down." Raynor armed himself with a pick handle, saying he would defend himself. One of the men threw a piece of iron piping six feet long through the open window, nearly knocking him out. They further attempted to open the door and struck him with a second piece of piping on the forehead. Raynor opened the door suddenly and got away, carrying a bag containing thirty shillings. One man followed him. He dropped the bag in some titree and staggered to a neighbouring house, the occupant of which took him to the hospital. Nine stitches were put in his head. The bag was found empty. The robbers entered Raynor’s house, but took nothing.