BRUTAL ATTACK

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 133, 2 December 1935, Page 13

BRUTAL ATTACK

BLOW FROM BEHIND

MECHANIC'S NARROW ESCAPE

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.

Brutally struck over the head with a heavy steel bar by an unknown assailant, John Nolsoq Brown, a cycle mechanic, of 37 Shakespeare Road. Waltham, was the victim of a cowardly assault in his workshop in Manchester Street yesterday afternoon. Brown suffered concussion and had his scalp laid open for a distance of two inches. Five stitches had to be inserted in the wound. Struck without warning from behind, Brown had a narrow escape from death or eerious injury. It is considered that very little more weight behind the blow would have killed him.

The man used both hands to wield the bar, which was 18 inches long and an inch in diameter. It had been carefully wrapped in brown paper, the folds being sealed with adhesive paper. Both the assailant and an accomplice escaped after the attack. Apparently the assault was made with the intention of rifling the till, but Brown was not laid unconscious with the blow and fought with his assailant.

Brown, who is a young single man, is at present in the Christchurch Public Hospital. His condition at midday today was stated to be satisfactory..