HARDY CORNISH GIRL
ASSAILANT SURPRISED LONDON, Sept. 1. A stocky young man attacked a Cornish girl in a lonely road near Fleet, Hants, last night. A moment later he was spreaoeagled by a hefty punch to the jaw. The girl with the good "right" is Miss Constance Allen, who, with her sister Nora, is employed by Mrs. C. J. Collingwood, of Fitzroy road, Fleet. "My sister and I had been visiting friends at Blackdown,'' she said last night. "We got off our cycles to walk up a hill. A man cyclist passed us. He must have jumped off his machine and hidden in the bushes for we had not gone very far when he sprang on me: clutched at iny throat. "I struggled with him, swung my right hand in which I was carrying my bag and hit him as haad as I could. "I must have caught him on the point of the jaw for he fell to the ground. Before I had a chance to strike him again lie saw my sister making for him and he jumped oil his cycle, and pedalled off. "We Cornish girls are. pretty hardy."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19131, 28 September 1936, Page 5
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192HARDY CORNISH GIRL Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19131, 28 September 1936, Page 5
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