A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.
WOMAN’S HEAD BATTERED.
HUSBAND’S STARTLING DISCOVERY.
''United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) • 'SYDNEY, Nov. 4. Unconscious and with, her head battered, ATr s Gwendoline 'Smith., aged 22, was found in her flat. She whs taken t 0 hospital, where her condition i s critical.
Mystery surrounds the ’affair. The injured woman’s husband .says they had been shopping land the wife, had returned homo before him. When he arrived he saw a strange man with a bloody face, who, in reply to interrogation, said he had made a mistake. The husband went to his wife’s bedroom and saw her lying, unconscious. He rushed to the front, whore the stranger still lingered, and asked him: “What have you done?” The"s'trangcr replied: “It must, hav,e been the other fellow,” inferring that another man had been in the flat.
The stranger then jumped througn the window and disappeared.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 November 1928, Page 5
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150A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 November 1928, Page 5
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