ATTACKS ON LONELY ROAD.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11931, 29 October 1919, Page 6

ATTACKS ON LONELY ROAD.

PLUCKY PIG-IT BY GIRL,

BLOODHOUND AS “TRACKER.”

Dastardly attacks on two women near the little Hertfordshire town of Tring, culminating in a bloodhound chase and the arrest of a young ex-soldier have created a sousattion there. Miss Nellie Grange a pretty girl of about 18, was wheeling her bicycle up a hill on the Wigginton Road, about a mile from Tring, just after 4 p.m., when a man sprang out of the hedge. He endeavoured to gag her, but Miss Grange, who is a plucky ruler to hounds, put up a strong tight, and, although knocked down and bruised managed to escape from her assailant. She at once gave information to the police. Next afternoon, at about the same time, Miss Susan Garter, who is nearly 60 years of age, was found bleeding and unconscious at a lonely' spot in Icknield Way, on the top of a hill a-quarter of a mile away from any houses. She had terrible head wounds, which were apparently inflicted with a large stone wrapped in paper which was found close by. Police inquiries led to the statement that a young man in a blue suit and dark cap had been seen in the neighbourhood, and a' bloodhound named Justice of belonging to Mr F. W. Kodwell, of Tring, was requisitioned for the case. “She is the old mascot of the Inns of Court O. T.C." at Berkhamsted, ” said Mr Kodwell, “and was given to me 18 mouths ago. This is the first tracking job she has had. “About six o'clock I took her to the scene of the outrage in Icknield Way. She displayed little interest until I noticed fooprints leading across a potato field to the side of a small canal. “She then took up the scent right away, and carried me along the canal bank to Little Tring, crossed the bridge, and led over Ika road through the gates. When she struck a cart track leading to a farm she became very excited. “At the farm I asked for a man in a blue suit and dark cap, but was told he had gone into the town. We covered a couple of miles on the scent, which lasted three-quarters of an hour,” The result of this chase coincided with the evidence produced by the police who arrested Robert Eggeton, a young carter of 20, in a public house in Tring on suspicion.