AFTER THE RACES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19830, 3 May 1927, Page 7

AFTER THE RACES

A PALMERSTON MYSTERY Sharer in Big Dividend Found Uncounscioas ASSAULT AND ROBBERY ALLEGED (Per Press Association.! PALMERSTON N., May 2. An extraordinary affair in which an assault on a sleeping woman is alleged to have been made, was reported to the police to-day. A resident of Ferguson Street, on returning from a social function on Saturday evening was surprised to find evidence of a burglary naving been committed in the room in which his wife was in bed asleep. The contents of a duchess chest were lying about the flour and a handbag which had contained a large sum of money was found open and empty. With difficulty, he awakened his wife but she was unable to give an account of what had happened, though a lump on her forehead suggested that she had been given a foul blow by an intruder as she lay asleep. That afternoon, she had attended th< Manawatu races and had participatec in one of the big dividends. This monej had been in the handbag that the hus band discovered empty. The police are investigating.