AN INSANE ACT.
ATTACK ON TWO LADIES.
[PRESS ASSOCIATION.!
[BY -LBOTRIC T-T-^UPH-COPYRIOHT,]
London, December 13. The man who wantonly shot and assaulted Miss Wood, niece of Mr Goschen, and Miss Ph.elbric in August last, has been pronounced to be insane and ordered to be confined in a lunatic asylum at the Queen's pleasure. [It will be recollected that the young ladies, Miss Hilda Wood, daughter of the Vicar of Bickley and niece of Mr Goschen, and Miss Edith Philbrick, were walking through a field near Chiselhurst on Wednesday evening, August 3rd, when a man, who had been following them, advanced towards them and discharged a gun at Miss Wood and broke the stock of the weapon over the bead of Miss Philbrick. They were both rendered unconscious, but when Miss Wood recovered her senses she crawled to the nearest cottage, and was afterwards convoyed to hor home at the vicarage, where the shots discharged from the gun were extracted from her fac6 and ueck. A man employed by a farmer in the neighbourhood, who cave the name of Maucklow, was arrested, identified, and charged before the magistrates at Chiselhurst and remanded.]
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 297, 14 December 1892, Page 8
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191AN INSANE ACT. Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 297, 14 December 1892, Page 8
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