Hammer seized after attack

Press, 20 July 1977, Page 6

Hammer seized after attack

1 ; ■ PA New Plymouth J Police look possession of ' a hammer, after two women .’were injured in an incident at a New Plymouth suburban shopping centre yesterday afternoon. The women and a teen-age girl were sitting in a car outside a chemist’s shop in Blagdon Road about 3.30 p.m. when a man got, into the vehicle. The women were injured in a scuffle which followed, and the girl ran into a grocery shop and called the police. As the two injured women got out of the car a few moments later, the man ran off to a house on Devon Street West, where he encountered another woman,

11 who shut the door on him, | the police said. j Policemen arrived with a i dog, and about 25 minutes : later a police patrol found the man in Cook Street, about half a mile away. The two injured women were taken to Taranaki Base Hospital. One, Gwenda Stainto Meuli, was still in hospital last evening with a broken wrist, lacerations, and a suspected fractured skull. Her condition is satisfactory. Laurel Rosina Morgan, was treated for lacerations to the head, and discharged. A man will appear in the Magistrate’s Court at New Plymouth today charged with assault with intent to injure Mrs Morgan and Mrs Meuli, and with assault on a female.