Attack On Young Jockey

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28950, 18 July 1959, Page 6

Attack On Young Jockey

(N.Z. Pres* Association—Copyrighi MELBOURNE, July u A young jockey was battered with a hammer in a stabl* a; Beaumaris, near today, and. another man was found hanged from a 10ft rafter. The jockey, Norman Garth, aged 22, is in hospital, with multiple head injuiries. Hii cosdition is serious. Police believe the dead mu, Edward James ("Tommy") Perry, aged about 25, a (tablahand, the only son of the trainer Edward Perry, of Balcomba road, Beaumaris, attacked the jockey. They say Garth wag antacked with a 71b short-handled sledge hammer. The motive for the attack is not known. For the last two years Girth has been riding Mr Perry’s horrab in gallops at the old Mentom racecourse, a mile away. At about 6.45 am. today Mr Perry heard his dog barking and howling. He ran to the stables and found all the horses leaping and jumping about. Garth was aittlng « the concrete floor, with hia hand! on his knee, and hh head dropping forward. He then saw his son hoMng from the rafters. He cut nlm down, and then tried to revivo both men. Mr Perry asked Garth wM had happened. Before he beeaim unconscious Garth gasped: “1 don’t know.*’ Mr Michael Neylan, a neighbour, and his two sons, helped Mr Perry to try to revive his M and treat Garth until tbt ambulance arrived.