JUMP OVER BRIDGE
— A BLENHEIM SENSATION. (Per Press Association.) BLENHEIM, August 1. A sensational incident occurred last evening, when following an altercation between a young couple, both leapt from Alfred Street Bridge into the Omaka River. The pair were first observed quarrelling 100 yards from the bridge. The young lady' attempted to escape the man’s attentions, but he overtook her and the argument continued on the bridge, which, is on one of the main business thoroughfares.
Suddenly, the woman climbed the handrail of the bridge and leapt to the water, the man following her example. The police arrived on the scene a moment latei’ and rescued the pair. The woman was conveyed to the public hospital, while the man was arrested.
This morning at the Police Court, William Dalziel Keith, 28, pleaded not guilty to assaulting Edna Kitto; also to a charge of offensive behaviour. The police applied for a remand in custody, till to-morrow morning, as the girl is still in the hospital.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 August 1929, Page 5
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