FIENDISH ACT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 17 October 1923, Page 5

FIENDISH ACT

WOMAN ATTACKED.

THROAT SLASHED WITH RAZOR

BT CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRJC iHT

SYDNEY, Oct. 16,

While Mrs Simpson was c«&y eraing with several neighbours at tost; house at Manly, a man who she is Stated to have known previously eaKjtered and commenced waving his arms. Mrs Simpson and the neigtfbawrs ran into the yard, followed- by %© man, who pulled a razor from his pocket, rushed at Mrs 'Sinip%oH and -skated her throat, arms and tack.

Hot screams attracted assistance, but tfc« SSsaftaait jump^ the fence and escaped te the bush. Mrs Simpson, Who wa* sent 'to hospital, is in a ■critical 'camdition.

A >lßi(gfc body <tfif police are scouring the -scwd) in "the "vicinity.