EX-SOLDIER’S ATTACK.

Grey River Argus, 2 November 1928, Page 5

EX-SOLDIER’S ATTACK.

On Peer’s Woman Secretary. ONDON SENSATION. (R<l:eivcd Nov. 1 ar <>.') p.LU.J f LONDON, Novcmb r 1. There was a dramatic scene •« >u Im fourth flour of Abbey House. \ ictoria, at the offices' of the Income 'Tax Payers *s Society. Lord Ddcics, the President said guod-nigb.t t: his Secretary, Miss Patricia Johnson, ag d twentylive years, and he was wa..k:ng down stairs wh 11 he heard the girl shriek ing. Men clerks wmuftstill on ihv premises and they had seen a can i go to her room. They found the door locked, but they forcibly cuter J. 'lm girl was bleeding! from the arm, auu there was a, man on the window ’.edge, threatening to hurl himself into the street if anybody approach' d. The man was dissuaded. He was found also to be wounded. He was taken t(: an hospital, where an operation was performed. I The girl is in a critical condition in o- nursing home. The girl’s father stajes that sh and the man were friends. The latter is 1 ..<■». widower, and he served in war time, being shell shocked.