OLD MAN BRUTALLY ATTACKED
.. SEVERE INJURIES SUSTAINED (By Telegraph—Press Association) TAURANGA, 10th April. Between eight and nine o'clock last night a brutal attack was made on an old man, William Young, aged TO years, who resides alone in a whare about four miles on the Taurnnsra skit- of Katikati. He was just going to bed when lie heard some oiie enter the whare and called out, thinking it win someone lie- knew ; but lie was violently attacked by the intruder with a pair of harness hnines and severely beaten about the head and hands. After dealing about twenty blows the assailant decamped. The old man crawled along the road to his son s place and was then taken to Dr. Stenhousc. of Katikati. and I hi? .afternoon was brought <o Tauvanga Hospital bv o St. John ambulance. He is suffering from eoneusshui, a fractured skull, and ininred hands. The police are investigating.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 11 April 1934, Page 5
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