WOMAN ASSAULTED
A TOYING EXPERIENCE INTRUDER DEMANDS MONEY ARREST SUBSEQUENTLY MADE (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND. Dec. 20. A young married woman of Armadale road. Remucra. reported to the police to-day that a man had gained admission to her house on the pretext that he was an inspector of electrical wiring, and. after perfunctorily trying the switches in the various rooms, demanded £2 for Christmas, at the same time assaulting her about the mouth and face. The woman told the police that this morning a man about 30 years of age and well dressed knocked on the back door and asked her whether she had experienced any trouble with the housing lighting system. He carried a notebook, with a list of names in it, and said he was looking for power leakages. He asked to see the switchboard. “He looked genuine enough,” the woman said in an interview later, " and I allowed him to enter. I left him at the switchboard and went into the kitchen. He asked to see the power points, and I showed him through to the lounge room; and. as I turned away to return to the kitchen, he placed his hands over my mouth and demanded money.”
The woman struggled to free herself, and screamed for help. He is said to have threatened her if she screamed again, but, although she was nearly suffocated with the pressure of his hands on her mouth and nose, she continued to scream. She struggled and managed to escape. After falling to the floor, she fraer herself and asked for a drink of water. Then the man again threatened her if she made a noise, and said he wanted only money. The woman got a drink of water for herself, 'and seized the opportunity of running away through the back door. The man is said to have followed her, but when she Screamed loudly he walked through the house and left by the front door. As soon as she had recovered her composure the woman telephoned to the police. The police made an arrest in the city to-night, and the man will appear in the Police Court to-morrow morning.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23688, 21 December 1938, Page 12
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