YOUNG COUPLE’S QUARREL

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 263, 2 August 1929, Page 9

YOUNG COUPLE’S QUARREL

PAIR LEAP FROM BRIDGE By Telegraph—Press Association. Blenheim, August 1. A sensational incident occurred last evening when, following an altercation between a young couple both leapt from the Alfred Street bridge into the Omaka River. The pair were first observed quarrelling a hundred yards from the bridge. The young woman attempted to escape the man’s attentions, but he overtook her, and the argument continued on the bridge, which is in one of ‘lie main business thoroughfares. Suddenly the woman climbed the handrail of the bridge and leapt into the water, the man following her example. The police arrived on the scene a moment later and rescued the pair. The woman was conveyed to the public hospital, while the man was taken to the police station. This morning in the Magistrate’s Court, William Dalzell) Keith, aged 28. pleaded not guilty to assaulting Edna Kitto, also to a charge of offensive behaviour. The police applied for a remand in custody until to-morrow morning, as the girl was still in hospital.