ATTEMPTED ASSAULT
BRUTAL ATTACK ON A GIRL. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received July 11, 11 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. Alfred Sylvester, aged twenty -one, attempted to assault & girl aged seventeen on Saturday, near Biggenden. He struck her on the head with a bottle and a pocket-knife. The girl stated she crawled for a quarter of a mile, and was found on Sunday morning in a critical condition. Sylvester was found in the yard of, an hotel, suffering from lysol poisoning. He died on Monday.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 10, 11 July 1912, Page 7
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85ATTEMPTED ASSAULT Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 10, 11 July 1912, Page 7
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