THIRD TIME IN WEEK
Assault On Woman In Auckland Street (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ■ AUCKLAND, January 14. For the third time within a week a woman was attacked in a. street iby an unidentified man last night. The assault occurred at midnight in Erson Avenue, 'Royal Oak district, when a young woman was punched and knocked down by an assailant who decamped after she screamed. She alighted from a train and was two doors from her home when assaulted. 'She was running, as rain was falling. When observed, the man bad run up alongside her. He seized her arm and punched her face and she fell on the footpath. Attempting to stop her screams, he put his hands over her mouth. A man and his wife ran out in their night attire from a nearby house and the assailant released his hold and ran. The. woman had a nasty cut on the mouth, a black eye, bruises and abrasions. It is significant that tho assaults have occurred at. three widely-separated points in the city.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 94, 15 January 1943, Page 4
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