BRUTAL ASSAULT ON GIRL
: HIT WITH IRON SPANNER. [Per Press Association.] Auckland, May 29. A girl named Gwendoline Leather, while returning home about .six o'clock last night, was assaulted "By a man, who hit her on the head with an iron spanner.. She f foU, and her,.assailant grasped hpr'byjt'fye throat. () Then she screamed, .and the man snatched her handbag and bolted. The girl has two scalp wounds,, which required twelve stitches-, and she °alsa c Deafs marks on her neck. The spannsr is in the possesion of the police, but there is no further clue. , u ■*
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 32, 29 May 1914, Page 5
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