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Show BEAT HER, THEN TORE EARRINGS FROM HER EARS . PORTLAND. Or., March 27. A maski robber entered, the home of Newton W. Rountree. a member of one of the moot prominent real estate firms In Portland, about 8 o'clock last night, beat Mrs. Rountree over the head with the butt of a revolver.- and after dragging: her from her bed. choked her Into Insensibility and tore a valuable pair of earrings from her ears. ' The vandal then ransacked the house for other valuable, but Rountree ays that no more of his wife's Jewelry-was Jewelry-was found. Mr. Rountree was absent front home until about 10-o'clock, and when he returned found his wife ptlll Insensible In-sensible from the treatment she had experienced. ex-perienced. Mrs. Rountree was able to give only a meager description .of the man. |