WOMAN BURNT BY ACID

Evening Star, Issue 19617, 25 July 1927, Page 8

WOMAN BURNT BY ACID

HUSBAND SURRENDERS TO • POLICE. While police officers were searching for a person suspected of throwing niIric acid over a Mrs Mary Mortensen, thirty-two, of Dove street. Cullercoats, the victim’s husband, William Mortensen, .thirty-four, miner, of no fixed abode, surrendered at Sunderland. He was subsequently handed over to the Tynemouth Borough police. The outrage occurred in broad daylight on a quiet footpath between Cullercoats village and Tynemouth. It is stated that Mrs Mortensen, who resided with her father, was suddenly confronted by man, who stepped out from the archway of a railway bridge, and, it is alleged, threw the contents of the bottle it her face. The liquid struck the woman on the side vf the neck, and trickled down over tw shoulder and shest; The assailant Rien threw the bottle away and decamped. The-woman, suffering great pain, ran to her father's house, nearly halt a mile away, and then collapsed, A bottle similar to that described by the woman was found near: the scene of the outrage, and this had contained nitric acid. .