AWFUL ORDEAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23061, 11 June 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)

AWFUL ORDEAL

YOUNG WIFE'S ST.OEY MAN AT BEDSIDE REJECTED SUITOR WITH KNIFE her husband had gone to. work early one morning, a young wife of Leyton, Essex, awoke to find a man whose friendship she had rejected, standing at her bedside with a knife in his hand. The woman, Mrs. Norah Norgate. told her story when she was giving evidence in a case in which Albert Edward Hinde, 32, storekeeper, of Leyton, was remanded in custody accused of breaking into a dwelling-house with intent to commit a felony, and of assaulting Mrs. Norgate. Greatly Distressed Mrs. Norgate, a pretty young woman, was greatly distressed in the witnessbox. W/th tears streaming down her face, she stated she had been married seven months and previously was employed in a factory in Leyton, where Hinde also worked. He had paid attentions to her, but she refused to have anything to do with him. Since she had left the factory to get married, ho had stopped her in the street. One morning, shortly after her husband had gone to work at 3.30 a.m., she was asleep in the bedroom of their ground-floor flat, when the sound of footsteps awakened her. "I opened my eyes and saw Hinde in the room, standing by my bed," -she went on. "He said: 'l.have come to do you in, as I said.' "I was frightened and trembling. I asked him how he had got in, and he said, 'Through the front window.' He had something in his hand, but I could not see what it was.

Calls for Help "1 asked him to sit down and to be reasonable, ns he could not gain anything by, doing anything to me, but he would not listen to reason, and said his heart was broken. "He grabbed me by the wrist, and then I saw that ho had a knife in his hand. Ho went to strike me with it. but i jumped out of bed and, catching hold of the eiderdown, smashed the window and shouted to the people upstairs.

"Hinde told me, 'Don't be alarmed. I'm going,' and left the room, and I heard the front door close."

She continued to call for help. Tho man upstairs came down, and the police wero informed. A knife was found on the floor of the bedroom.

Hinde, who said he had no questions to ask, was then remanded. Mr. W. B. Iteidie, the presiding magistrate, suggested that Hindo should be examined by the prison doctor.