GAROTTING IN WELLINGTON.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12420, 9 December 1908, Page 3

GAROTTING IN WELLINGTON.

[tjHIXED PBESS^ASSOqiATIONj ; Wellington! Dec. 8. Two oaaes of assault and robbery occurred in the city last night. ' The "victim of the fiist outrage was George Reid, a fireman, wbo, when proceeding along Thorndon Quay, was tackled by a man, and gripped hy the throat, instantly three other men appeared, and the gang weut through 'Xeid's pockets. Forty minutes after, P. Bennett, ■while walking iv Uhuznee s teet, ■was seized, acd his puckets weie emptied. ./-'...