WOMAN USES HORSEWHIP

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17229, 8 April 1930, Page 7

WOMAN USES HORSEWHIP

MAN BEATEN'ON STATION UNEXPLAINED ATTACK Sydney has had quite a number of cases of public horse-whipping, but liono so violent as one that occurred on Artarmon railway station on Thursday morning. A young woman brandishing a short cattle whip rushed on to the station and approached a young man who was waiting for a train due in a few minutes. Without any warning—he did not see her until she was beside him —the young woman, white with rage, started to belabor him across the head and face in such manner that lie had no chance to protect himself. Livid marks appeared on liis cheeks, and to save himself from his infuriated attacker he had to turn and run through the station buildings. The determined young woman followed him. cracking the whip as she came, and the man, now terror-stricken, turned and dodged desperately until the arrival of the 'train for Sydney. She followed and: belabored him until ho jumped aboard and the train [Hilled out. Then the woman collapsed with nervous prostration. She recovered soon afterwards and was assisted to her home. No explanation of the extraordinary attack was given either to the station officials or the police, who interrogated the woman in vain.

All she would was that it was a private affair, and that the whipping had settled it.