YOUNG WOMAN ASSAULTED
ATTACK IN AUCKLAND
SCREAMS FRIGHTEN MAN OFF (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. A sudden and unprovoked assault was committed on a young woman who was walking in Mountain road, near the Auckland Grammar School, late on Thursday night. The victim, Miss Ilona Willacy, 18, who is employed at the homo of Prolessor A. P. W. Thomas, was struck on the face and body by an unknown man ami knocked down. Her assailant tied when Miss Willacy screamed, and so far he has not been traced by the detectives.
Miss Willacy was near the school caretaker’s house when she noticed a man approaching, and, when he came near lie stopped and asked the time. Before Miss Willacy could the man struck her_twice, once on the face and once on the body, knocking her down. She screamed for help and the man disappeared. Miss'Willacy sought protection in a house nearby, and later continued to tlic home of her employer. She was little the worse for her experience, although suffering from a small wound inside the month caused by being struck heavily in the face.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18591, 29 December 1934, Page 12
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186YOUNG WOMAN ASSAULTED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18591, 29 December 1934, Page 12
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