BRUTAL ISLAND ASSAULT.
WOMAN SEVERELY INJURED. [FROM 0178 OWN CORRESPONDENT.] SUVA (Fiji), Dec. 14. News Las just been received from Ba that an Indian woman, named Thadi Rathnamma, wife of a sirdar of the tramway gang, had been most brutally attacked by one of the gang and nearly cut to pieces with a cutlass. Thadi was having a siesta, and was sitting quietly on her lawn playing with a dog, "when her assailant, who had stayed away from work that day, came up to her, and without warning caught her by the hair and commenced chopping at her with a knife or sword. The dog attacked the assailant, and directed attention for a moment, enabling Thadi to call for help. The man drove off the dog with a slash of the knife, and hearing people approaching ran away. 8 The woman was severely injured, but may recover. Her assailant is at large, but ie being vigorously hunted down.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17659, 21 December 1920, Page 8
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