WOMAN HIT, ROBBED

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30482, 2 July 1964, Page 14

WOMAN HIT, ROBBED

Police Seek Attacker Detectives under De-tective-Sergeant B. L S. Kimber were late last night still making inquiries into a robbery on Tuesday evening in which a Christchurch housewife was attacked in her home. The woman was working in the kitchen of her home in Wairakei road shortly after 7 pan. when she heard a noise behind her. She turned and was struck across the face.

Dazed and. bleeding from the blow, the woman staggered from the kitchen towards the telephone. Her attacker took £4 10s from a kitchen drawer. ‘ He overlooked more money in an upper cupboard. The woman telephoned her husband at work, and a doctor was called. The woman yesterday was almost recovered, although her face was very swollen. Two children, aged two and three, were asleep in a bedroom at the time of the attack. Uniform police and police dogs searched the area without success. The man was not very tall and was wearing a fawn overcoat Merivale Incident

Later the same night a man accosted a woman in Merivale. The woman was on a bicycle in Berry street about 11.30 p.m. when a man got out of a car and approached her. The woman said he attempted to seize her. She screamed and he got back in the car and drove off.

Detectives are also inquiring into this incident, but have no evidence to link it with the attack on the woman at Bryndwr.