ASSAULT ON WOMAN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19893, 22 March 1939, Page 5

ASSAULT ON WOMAN

INTRUDER IN HOUSE STRUCK WITH BOTTLE (Per Press Association.) :., . AUCKLAND, this day. A young married woman was the /ictim of a savage assault by a man ui her kitchen early yesterday afternoon in Church street, Ponsonby. She told the police that the man went uninvited into her kitchen and while she. was examining a cake m the oven he struck her over the head with a bottle and then gripped her by the throat imtil she became unconscious. When she recovered she staggered round the house and collapsed over the gate. Her dishevelled state attracted the attention of a passer-by, who summoned the police and a doctor: The woman herself was still too dazed last night to be interviewed. A woman,passer-by told a constable that the woman's head was covered in blood when she first saw her, and that her clothing and some scratches

and some finger-marks on her neck \ indicated that she had been attacked. although not seriously hurt, about the head.

The woman, who was the victim A the assault, is suffering a good deal from shock. It is understood that a suspect was subsequently arrested.