A NIGHT ASSAULT
THIEF ROUGHLY HANDLED
DIGGER DEFENDS HIMSELF.
A man walked into the N.Z. Times office, Wellington, the other day, and told a strange story. "I am a returned soldier," he sail; "and I come from the country. I '-1° not know Wellington, ami, from what happened to me last night, I do ;iot wish to improve my acquaintance with your city. I was staying at a hotel, and was showing some old coins to *some people I met there. One of these coins is said to be one thousand years old, and to be very valuable. Grabbed by the Throat. "I walked down Stout street, in the direction of the wharf, as I wanted to meet a friend on the lonic. It was dark, and I had not got far when 1 was accosted by one of the men I saw at the hotel. He told be my collection of coins was very valuable.; - Then he asked me for a cigarette. I put both my hands into my coat pockets, and, catching me thus at a disadvantage, he grabbed me by .the throat. "I have been over the top, as the saying is, and I wasn't long getting my hands free. I hauled off and landed him one on the point of the jaw. He dropped to the ground, and, as I was looking at him, his mate leaped over a fence from behind and made a grab at me. 1 dodged away got my back to the fence. Seeing his mate, this fellow thought there might be thing coming to him, and he changed his mind and picked up his male, and they both made off in the direction of the wharf. A Ruse to Decoy. "I had it in my mind to follow them, but, thinking it might be tx ruse to uecoy me, I turned and went to the police station, and gave a description of them. The police commended me for having 'landed' him one, and said that, if people who were waylaid dealt with their assailants like this one on the spot, there would be less of that kind of assault." * The Digger 1 exhibited his right hand, the back of which was well barked, and appeared to confirm his statement that he had used it to advantage in the noble art of self-defence.
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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14818, 5 December 1921, Page 7
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