Stripping a Woman in London Streets.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 44, 5 April 1884, Page 5

Stripping a Woman in London Streets.

At the Hammersmith Police Court, Frederick Brown, Henry Wright, and Thomas Matthew Dyett were charged with robbing Mary Ann Bartlett, the A\ifo of a man employed at the Clarendon Hotel, Notting Hill. The prosecutrix, who had a youthful appearance, said she had been married 20 years. Mr Faget (with surprise) — How old are you ? The prosecutrix said sho was 3o, and her daughter was in court. On Wednesday Aveek she went out with Mrs Arnold for a walk, and on returning they went into the Portland, where they had a glass of wine. After leaving the public-house they went along the Pottery Lane, where Mrs Arnold left her to go on for some sugar. The port wine overcame her, as she was weak. She was dragged by the prisoners through a gate and stripped. Dyett took oil" her ulster, and the other prisoner had her purse and rings. She could not tell which took them, as she was stupid. They even stripped her to her underclothes, taking off her boots, so that sho had to walk home in the mud without any. The prisoners had taken off her petticoats, and she had nothing on except her drawers and stays. She was treated violently, and thrown on the ground. The first person she saw when she recovered was a policeman, who hnd been fetched, and who took her home. The prisoner Brown said he was innocent of the charge. Wright said he heard that a woman was lying naked in a shed, and he held a light. Police-constable 352 T said he found the prosecutrix in a tile shed, lying on her back, nearly naked. He lifted her up, but she appeared stupefied. He asked a woman to dress her, as she was unable to do so. There wore not any rings on the finger, which had a little mark of blood. Mr Pagot heard some confirmatory evidence, and remanded the prisoners.

Bunedin Harbour Board have reverted to the system of having two standing comj mittees. It is suggested as an improvement that there should be a paid executive of two. Some genius lias invented a machine to play pianos. Why, Auckland is full of them already,