WOMAN STABBED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 201, 25 August 1937, Page 10

WOMAN STABBED.

murder in slum! * V ' ' ' - *"* j » GREAT PUBLIC OUTCRY. " -> ' W-".'' ' £1,000,000 CT.MRATTOE PLAIC. -r--. V JOHANNESBURG. \ ' ' I iS The murder =of a young European woman at Doorhfontein, part of which has become one of Johannesburg's worst slum areas, has caused such a public outcry that the Johannesburg City Council has decided to spend £1,000,000 immediately on slum clearance. Bleeding profusely from deep stab wounds in the abdomen and hip, Polly Newman, a 35-year-old factory worker, staggered across the yard of her house and-.collapsed on her bed. She died in an ambulance while being taken to hospital. Shortly after three o'clock in the morning a native entered the yard of Mrs. Newman's house and asked her for two .-shillings, which he said she owed him. "He spoke in a dreadful, drunken manner," a coloured woman who lived next door told a reporter. Miss Newman went out into the yard with the native. "Then I heard a scream and a lot of swearing. When I ran to the yard I could not see a native, but Polly was standing with her hands on her stomach, swaying. She lurched towards her room. I ran for help and soon an ambulance came and took her away," continued the coloured woman.. The motive of the murder is unknown, nor has the murderer been found.