BRUTAL ASSAULT

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 80, 30 June 1928, Page 7

BRUTAL ASSAULT

BY MASKED MEN. A PLUCKY WOMAN. LONDON, May 14. A woman’s story of how she pux» lo flight three masked men whom she Found attacking her .husband in his bedroom was told at the Marylebono Police Court yesterday. Before the Magistrate, on remand, were George Warren, twenty-one, and Jack Leroy, twenty-four, of King Edward Street, Lambeth, who were charged with being eonceriiei 1 whfii a third man (not yet arrested) in committing a burglary at the house of Mr Gaskell Edward' Jacobs, in Park Square East, Regent’s Park, and with wounding Mr Jacobs with intent to murder him. WUrren was in the service of Miami Mrs Jacobs as butler at the time of the alleged assault. BUTTED WITH HEAD.

Mrs Jacobs, in the witenss box, said that she was awakened on Easter Sunday morning by wild shrieks and thuds. She rushed to her husband’s bedroom- Ho was standing at the foot of the bed surrounded by three masked men and bleeding from wounds. “T hutted one of the men with my head.’’ said .Mrs Jacobs, ,r and then wrenched mv husband from them, threw him on the hod ami turned to the men. ‘-The tallest one T knocked on the jaw, and he flew down stairs. The other two T w’th ■ AWv, and one of them followed the first man. The third man I caught by the coat. “He jumped the stairs and I jumped with him, holding on to his coat. Some instinct seemed to remind me of Warren, and I shrieked out “is Warren in bis bedroom? If not, I have him here.” “As the man wrenched himself out of my grasp, his hat ami his mask fell off. I ran downstairs after him. “I followed the men to the top ot Park Square East, but was unable to go further because I was in my nightdress and bare feet, and the streets were wet and slippery.” Mr Jacobs, giving evidence, said that he was awakened by a blow on the head. There was a safe with jewels worth £ISOO in his bedroom. Both the men who pleaded not guilty, were sent for trial.