SHOP MANAGER ATTACKED.
INCIDENT AT EKETAHUNA. Per Press Associatio.n EKET-ffIUNA, Dec. 15. While the annual school dance was In progress last night, Mr C. Mcbaughlan, manager of Yates’s Cash 3t o rls in Main Street; returned to the shop, which was well lighted in front He went into a back room to procure a window curtain and was about to turn the electric light on when he was struck by a burglar with a sharp instrument,' receiving a big gash on the head. He was unconscious for some time and then gained tYe street, bleeding profusely. He received medical attention, and was taken home. The wound is not seriOU Mr McLaughlan did not see his assailant, who escaped by a back window where the entrance was effected No 011 c was seen to leave the hont ° f A th searc°h'for the assailant was unsuccessful, though a motor car which was noticed Standing with its lights full on further down the street disappeared before the alarm was raised, ft Ts not known whether, it was connected with the affair Nothing was disturbed in the shop.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 15, 15 December 1932, Page 7
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184SHOP MANAGER ATTACKED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 15, 15 December 1932, Page 7
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