THROAT GASHED.

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 83, 13 April 1929, Page 6

THROAT GASHED.

CATERER VICTIM. JRJESCURER TOO LATE. SYDNEY. Daniel Davies, a'“foreman caterer, of Snaps Street, Baudwick, was brutally attacked by two men in Doncaster- Avenue, 'Kensington, and slashed with a- sharp implement, believed to have been a razor.

Davies alighted from a> tram at Kensington a~t 6,30 a.m., and started to walk to Bandwick racecourse, Where he is employed by a catering firm. Ho bad not gone far, when two men. sprang at him.

Davies put up a. strenuous fight, but ho was quickly thrown to the Jground. On, rising, ho '.received a violent blow in the, face, following which one of 1 the men. seized his arms, while the other went through Shis pockets. Meanwhile, ■ Davies • had been calling loudly for help, and Was roughly told to “shut up.” As he" continued, 1m cries, one, of the men drew what. Davies tookjto he a razor and slashed him across the throat with it. The assailants then rain away, leaving their victim bleeding on rho roadway. A few minutes later, several men, who had heard Davies’ cries for, help, rushed to the scene, and he was taken to the Boyal South (Sydney Hospital. Throe stitches we.re inserted in the Wound in the throat, and Bq was then allowed to go homo. Constable M'Gill, Harper, and Gilraoro are investigating.