BOUND AND GAGGED

Taranaki Daily News, 16 June 1931, Page 7

BOUND AND GAGGED

AN AUCKLAND INCIDENT. YOUTH’S STORY OF ATTACK. The police are investigating an incident which occurred in Puriri Avenue, Great South Road, Auckland, bn Friday evening. A youth, Alan Ambrose Death, aged 18, of 173, Green Lane, was found bound and gagged in a washhouse at the back of a house in Puriri Avenue, and he states that he was attacked by two men when walking nearby. The discovery was made by a grocer’s assistant who was delivering goods to the house. He heard a noise in the wash-house and he found the youth sittiii* on the floor with his hands and legs Tied together. The. youth was wagged with a scarf and his hands were ?astened behind his back to his legs. On being released, the youth stated that he went to visit friends shortly after 7 o’clock and was walking along PUriri Avenue when he was attacked by a man. He struggled with. his assailant but another man attacked him from behind. They then took him to the wash-hovue, binding him and then gagging him with his own scarf '. Peculiar circumstances are attached to the case and the motive is difficult to understand. The youth states that no attempt was made to rob him, and it is believed that no house in the vicinit was broken into.