AUCKLAND ASSAULT
TAXI-DRIVER'S STORY
TEN KNIFE WOUNDS
(By '.Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day,
Mr. William George Styants, taxidriver, who was attacked last night by two young male passengers, was allowed to leave hospital today and return to .his home at Grey Lynn. Ten knife wounds, the most serious being one over the left jugular vein, are believed to have been inflicted by a penknife. { Mr. Styants said today that there was no argument about the.fare, and he was unable to account for: the sudden savage attack. Wh£n he stopped opposite some scrub as requested, one of the men struck him from behind with a heavy instrument. He could not turn because he was behind the driving wheel.. Both men grabbed him by the coat' collar, one holding him by the neck while the other, a more heavily-built man, stabbed him.
"I realised that if I didn't leave the car I would be 'done in,'" Mr. Styants said. "I hauled myself out of the car, which was the only way of breaking the grip of the two men. Both men left5 the car and ran into the scrub. I followed for 25 yards, but was unable to go further as blood was streaming from me." Detectives are spreading a wide net in the hope of finding the assailants. Earlier report on page 14.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 129, 3 June 1939, Page 11
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222AUCKLAND ASSAULT Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 129, 3 June 1939, Page 11
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