ETON COLLEGE RAID

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21546, 18 July 1933, Page 9

ETON COLLEGE RAID

MORE WINDOW SMASHING EARLY MORNING OUTRAGE Eton College on Sunday, Juno 11, ®vas the object of another windowsmashing campaign similar to tho one last year, when two Old Etonians and a friend wero fined for damaging the collego buildings in Common. Lane. At 2.30 a.m. three or four youths in a motor-car threw bricks through tho windows of the Corner House, on tho main Windsor-Slough Road, wliero one of the masters, Mr. 11. T. Assheton, lives in charge of about 30 boys. One of tho houses attacked last year was occupied by Mr. Assheton at the time. In tho recent raid one brick was hurled through Mr. Asshoton's study window on tho first floor. Another smashed some coloured glass windows on tho ground floor, and it is believed that the raiders smashed with their fists three panes of a window facing tho street. Boys who wero wakened by the smashing of glass saw a motor-car speeding away toward Slough. A moment later tho vanguard of motorcars returning from the Aldorshot Tattoo arrived on the road, and all -sight of tho raiders was lost. Tho polico, bearing in mind tho attack last year, when windows at build-, ings separated by several hundred yards wero smashed, believe that the raiders wero disturbed at their work and that many more windows would otherwise have suffered. The raid was kept a close secret throughout tho Sunday. None of the people attending tho Upper Chapel, a few yards from tho Corner House, where tho King and Queen wero present that morning, was awaro that anything had happened. Tho polico, howover, were quickly summoned after the raid, and they stopped a number of cars returning from the Aldershot Tattoo in tho hope of picking up information. It is believed hero that tho raid may have been the work of an irresponsible section of Old Etonians or rivals from another school. "I do not know that there is any personal animosity against me, and I have not tho slightest idea of who was responsible for the attack," said Mr. Assheton. "But then," ho added, "I known very little about the matter,"