FLAT MYSTERY.
WOMAN WITH HEAD BATTERED
STRANGER RUNS FROM HUSBAND.
United Press Assn, by El. Tel. Copyrlgh' (Australian Press Association.) (Received Nov. 4. 5.5 p.in.) SYDNEY. Nov. 4.
Mrs Gwendoline Smith, 22, was” found in her flat at Darlingliurst last night with her head battered and unconscious. She was taken to a hospital, where her condition is critical. Mystery surrounds the affair. Her husband says they had been shopping and his wife returned home before him. When he arrived. he saw a strange man with a bloody face who, in reply to an interrogation, said he had made a mistake. The husband went to the wife’s room and saw her lying unconscious. He rushed to the front, where the stranger still lingered and asked him “What have you donef” The stranger replied “It .must have been the other fellow,” inferring that another man had been in the flat. The .stranger then jumped through a window, and disappeared.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10735, 5 November 1928, Page 5
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