HOUSE OCCUPANT STABBED IN FIGHT WITH INTRUDER
SYDNEY, This Day (Rec. 1 p.m.) With a watersider’s steel hook embedded in his chest, Raymond L. Brown, a truck driver, wrestled with a man who had entered his home early in the morning and held him until the police came. Hearing a noise in the lounge room, he rose and found a man in the act of entering the house. The intruder struck at him with a 14-inch steel hook, which penetrated Brown s chest near the collarbone. . Brown closed with the intruder, and they struggled together until a •nolice car arrived. P Afterwards Brown had three stitches inserted in the wound, which narrowly missed the jugular vein. . An Estonian, recently arrived in Australia, was later charged with breaking and entering and malicious wounding.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 August 1950, Page 5
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