Victim of Thugs Thrown into River-Battles Rodents Three Hours.
    New York, Aug. 13.-Robbed of $400 and his watch by a gang of thugs, John Maughan, an elderly and well-to-do resident of Harlem, was beaten and thrown bodily into the North river by his assailants.
    He clung for three hours to the cross-beams under the city pier at Thirty-Ninth street, his life menaced by attacks of hordes of rats swarming beneath the wharf, before his moans were heard by policemen, who hauled him out more dead than alive.
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