ATTACK BY INTRUDER
Woman Hit On Head
(NZ Press Association <
BLENHEIM. August 26
A young married womar was battered about the head bv an intruder whom «'e surprised in her home in Blenheim night She is Mrs BeT.ce Jean Desborough aged 21. who was later adm :, 'ed 'o Wairau Hospital Her condition tonight was satisfactory Mrs Desbo—'uch. who is an Usher at a Blenheim oicture theatre, -eeched her home in Grove road about 10 30 om Her husband was out far the evening. and when she noticed a light tn ’he house as she was outtina het bicycle away she thought he m"«t have returned ea.ly She then heard the back door slam and a man sooke to her He struck her abou’ the head several times and she was knocked to the ground The man ran of! down the «t’°et. M~s Desboroueh b'eedms badly, managed to crawl inside to telephone the police
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29911, 27 August 1962, Page 10
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