INTOXICATED MOTORIST

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 18 November 1937, Page 5

INTOXICATED MOTORIST

FIXED £ls AND LICENSE SUSPENDED | liv I'pleerapti —Prc« Association] OAMARU. 17th November. Before Mr Bundle. S.M.. John Reich a produce salesman, pleaded guilty on a charge of being intoxicated in charge lof a car. He was lined £ls and his i license was suspended lor six months.

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ESCAPE OF ASSAILANT j | Hv Tel Pit ia oh -- Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH. Kith November. As a prelude, apparently, to the projoe led looting of the premises, an unknown man viciously assaulted Mr, Wallingford Chan, a Chinese herbalist, at his rooms at 911 Manchostei Stiect, at 8.30 p.m. ! Saying that he wanted treatment for ; rheumatism, the man waited until Mi ' Chan’s back was turned, when he : struck him over the head with an iron . bar. Mr Chan grappled with his assail- 1 ! ant, who. however, broke away and i escaped, leaving behind the weapon, his I hat. and a sugar-bag. _ j i —The assault occurred in Mr Chan s

consulting room, opening off the waiting room, which fronts on to the street. Mr Chan was going through some correspondence when the door opened and the man walked in. He seemed surprised to find the room occupied.. Mr'Chan told his visitor that, the staff being absent, lie could not alien! to him that evening, and suggested tl t he should call again on Saturday morning. So saying, he walked across , to the door to open it. His back was j then to the visitor. As he turned the j handle, lie felt a heavy blow on the top of his head. DASH FOR THE STREET Pivotin _quickly, he received another savage blow on the left temple be-: lore he could grapple with his assail-J ant, although small and fight, Mr Chan 1 is a skilful exponent of j u-jitsu. Hej wrested the weapon from his assailant and jammed him into the corner by the door. Weakened, however, by loss of

blood from the wounds in his head, and further hampered by the fact that the back of his coat had caught on the door handle, Mr Chan could npt maintain his grip, and, as Mrs Chan, hearing the scuffle, entered from the back of the premises by another door, the man broke away. He ran out of the door by which Mrs Chan had entered, and with her in pursuit, dashed down the corridor and through the waiting room to the street. The doctor who was called to attend to Mr Chan's wounds said that only the fad that he had an unusually stron skull saved him from concussion. if not death. Two stitches had to be inserted in the wound on the top of his head, where the first blow fell.