ATTACKED WITH A BAR.
TWO WOMEN INJURED. ASSAILANT ON TRIAL. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT SYDNEY, Aug. 4. Alfred Brenchley was committed for trial on a charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm on Mrs and Miss Cole. The evidence showed that Brenchley’s and Mrs Cole’s sons quarrelled, and later Brenchley visited Mrs Cole’s home and, Mrs Cole alleged, attacked her and her daughter.
A cablegram from Sydney on July 19 stated: Following a quarrel between David William Cole and a youth named Brenchley at Woollahra, Brenchley’s father complained to the police that lps son had been attacked by young Cole. The police advised him to proceed by summons, and he left the police station. In the early hours of this morning Mrs Cole, aged 54, and her daughter Sadia, aged 21, heard knocking at the door. They went downstairs and opened it, and they were savagely attacked by a man with an iron bar, who battered their beads. They were sent to hospital, both with compound fractures of the ‘skull.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 August 1925, Page 5
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