COWARDLY ATTACK.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19062, 26 July 1927, Page 5

COWARDLY ATTACK.

WOMAN ASSAULTED IN SHOP. [THE PRESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, July A cowardly attack with a chisel bar wrapped in brown paper was made upon Mrs Louisa Struckett, tobacconist, of Ponsonby road, this afternoon. Mrs Struckett had turned to secure half a dozen packets of cigarettes, for a customer, a man of about 25 years of age, when' he leaned over the. counter and struck her on the back of the head with the bar. Fortunately, the blow was a glancing one, but it inflicted a gash which later necessitated the insertion of two stitches. Had the blow fallen a little higher the consequences would have been more serious. As it was, Mrs Struckett suffered severely from shock. Miss C. Cowburne, sister of Mrs Struckett, was at the rear of the shop, and was attracted by a cry from her sister. The man remained in the shop for a few moments after the attack, but on an alarm being raised he promptly decamped, vaulting a fence into Western Park, and disappearing. If the man had designs on the till he was disappointed. The till is under the counter, but was not opened, and, as far as is known, no goods were taken.