SENSATIONAL ROBBERY.
BRUTAL ASSAULT AT AUCKLAND. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, September 28. A sensational story of how he was two men in a back street at Parnell and robbed of £4O on Thursday night is recounted by William Waugh, aged sixty years, who lies in the Auckland Hospital suffering from concussion of the brain- The victim of the assault was found lying in a pool of blood, and unconscious, in a dark corner of Selwyn Terrace late on Thursday night. Waugh had a wallet containing £4O, the proceeds of a business transaction, in his pocket. He states that he was set upon suddenly by-two men. He remembers feeling a blow on the head and someone goi noth rough his pockets. His assailants were strongly built, bnt owing to the darkness he could not see their features.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12757, 29 September 1919, Page 3
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136SENSATIONAL ROBBERY. Star (Christchurch), Issue 12757, 29 September 1919, Page 3
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