MAN STILL IN COMA
Theft From House
A wallet containing £6O was stolen from a room on the ground floor of the Manchester Boarding-house on Saturday, the day Clifford William Barndon was battered unconscious in a room on the second storey. Mr Barndon is believed to have been attacked with the wooden leg of a stretcher taken from an unused bed in the room opposite. Last evening Mr Barndon was still unconscious and on the seriously ill list at the Princess Margaret Hospital Detective Inspector G. C. Urquhart, who is in charge of the investigation, said yesterday it was too early to establish whether there was any connexion between the attack on Mr Barndon and that on Miss Nell Woolley in her home in Hereford street on July 25 Miss Woolley died in the Christchurch Hospital on the evening of August 3.
It is not known whether the intruder in the Manchester Boarding-house armed himself before he went to Mr Barndon's room or after he was disturbed. The police do not know’ whether Mr Barndon was robbed.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29900, 14 August 1962, Page 14
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