ASSAULT IN THE DARK.

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 14025, 17 January 1918, Page 8

ASSAULT IN THE DARK.

YOUNG WOMAN INJURED. { BLOWS FMO.M I'NSKKN' A.SSAILAXT I S AITKLAXI), January .14. A young woman. .Miss Xollie Freclain], daughter of rapfain ,1. Frcelnnd, of the trawler tfiinplon, who resides a! Mountain 'View road, iloriti wap ' admitted to the hospital on Saturday suffering from ast- aJ p wound and severe \ bruises on the hand indicted l.y an mi- S known assailant on Friday night. Miss | Freeland hud been visiting a friend at Grey Lynn, and was returning home along the Point Chevalier road shortly after ten o'clock. "When near the Western Springs, in a rather lonely 1 part of the road, she heard quick foot- | steps behind her, and at the same mo- § ment received a violent blow on the I head, which dazed her. She raised her [ hand to her head and immediately re- g . ceived a second blow, which fell partly E on her fingers. The second blow felled 1 , her to the ground, but she did not entirely lose consciousness. No further j attack was made, however, and there j was no attempt at robbery.' Miss Free- ■ land states that she saw nothing of her \ assailant, and, beyond hearing the foot- | steps before receiving the first blow, g heard nothing. The wounds received ■ ' by Miss Freeland are not considered dangerous, but the brutal nature of the - attack is indicated by the fad that, in addition In (he scalp wound, one of the finger-nail:; on. the hand which received the second blow had to be removed. 1