ASSAULT ON WOMAN

Evening Post, Volume CCXV, Issue 13, 17 January 1938, Page 10

ASSAULT ON WOMAN

MAN SEIZED AND BOUND

CAPTORS HELPED BY A DOG

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, January 16,

There was a sensational occurrence near Albany at 10 o'clock last night when a middle-aged single woman, who was alone in her two-roomed cottage in a lonely part of the Paremoremo Road, was assaulted by a man. Hearing her muffled cries for help, two men, who were asleep in their camp several hundred yards away, rushed to her gate and found her lying on the ground in her night attire. After a struggle in which a cattle dog played an important part, they overpowered the man and bound him until the police arrived. Although she did not show any outward signs of injury the woman suffered severely from shock and was unable to give an account of what took place. Almost hysterical, she was taken back to her home and put to bed by a neighbour. The woman suffers from rheumatism and cannot move about freely. She said she'was in bed at 10 o'clock on Friday night when someone called her and asked her the way to Riverhead. After that she was unable to tell more except that a man tried to choke her.

The cottage occupied by the victim is about 250 yards from property owned by Messrs. Alfred Anderton and Ernest William Anderton, who are camped upon it. The two brothers were awakened by cries for help, and dashing to the cottage they found the woman lying on the ground near her front gate. A man was several feet away. Seeing that the man was putting on his shoes or boots and. about to make off,, the Andertons closed with him. A struggle ensued for some minutes until a large black cattle-dog belonging to the Andertons, without encouragement, got a hold on one of the struggling man's ears and held him on the ground. One of the Anderton brothers tied the man's wrists together and kept him on the ground while his brother left to obtain assistance from Mr. G. K. Prebble, a farmer who lives about a mile and a half away. He met Mr. Prebble, who was on his way to the woman's house in his car, having heard the Andertons calling for help. Mr. Prebble called in at a house which has a telephone and rang up the Takapuna police. __^____^___