CONSTABLE INJURED
EARLY MORNING STRUGGLE [peb pbess association.] AUCKLAND. April 17. Suffering from concussion. Constable D. G. Kilgour was admitted to hospital early this morning. TTis injuries were received in a struggle with a prowler, in the grounds of St. Helen’s Hospital.
Hearing moans, a nursing sister on duly, shortly before three o’clock, found the constable, semi-conscious, crawling on his hands anti knees. Little is known of what actually happened, but the constable remembers accosting a man near the nurses’ sleeping quarters, and that, during Hie struggle, he was struck a- heavy blow on the head. His assailant escaped. Regaining consciousness, hut. unable to walk, the constable was crawling towards the hospital, when he was found.
He has a lump on his head, and the hospital reports that his condition is fairly serious.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 April 1939, Page 2
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