CONSTABLE INJURED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 117, 18 April 1939, Page 9

CONSTABLE INJURED

INCIDENT AT AUCKLAND. Pci’ Press Association. AUCKLAND, April 17. Serious injuries were suffered liy Constable D. G. Kilgour, when he received n blow on the- head while patrolling the grounds of St. Helen’s Hospital early this morning. lie was found semi-conscious near the back entrance of the hospital shortly before a.m. and was taken to the Auckland Hospital, where lie recovered consciousness several hours later. His condition is fairly serious.

It is suggested that Constable Kilgour may have been the victim of a prowler who, after striking him. escaped in the darkness. Since the beginning of flic year nurses at the hospital have from time to time telephoned tln> police in the early hours of the morning arid complained that a man has been seen to lurk near- the back entrance to the grounds. Several times constables from the central station went to investigate, but when they arrived the man had gone. It is reporter! that on one occasion a nurse found a mail in her room, but her ones caused him to run awav.

Periodic watches have been kept, and this morning Constable Kilgour accosted a man who was crossing a lawn outside the nurses' sleeping quarters. A few minutes later a sister heard groans from the hack of the premises. She went to the hack door and saw the constable, obviously distressed, crawling toward her. 'When lie reached the door he collapsed.

Constable Kilgour is the man who rescued llr J. O’Sullivan, vice-com-modore of the Victoria Cruising Club, from the club’s promises during the lire at St. Mary's Hay on March (i. Both men were afterward taken to the Auckland Hospital, where they were treated for shock.