MAN ATTACKED IN BED

Taranaki Daily News, 30 November 1932, Page 7

MAN ATTACKED IN BED

STRUCK WITH IRON BAR.

AFFAIR IN COMMUNIST CLUB.

A man named Patrick Holland was attacked with an iron bar while lying in bed at the International Seamen’s Club, Miner’s Point, Sydney, lately. He was struck a heavy blow under the right eye, and a wound was inflicted which necessitated three stitches. Subsequently a man was arrested. The International Seamen’s Club is known to the police as one of the principal haunts of Sydney Communists. Holland was lying in his bed reading. He. had his head toward the door, and heard someone enter his room, but did not see the intruder. Suddenly he was struck on the face with an iron bar, according to his story to the police. He was almost knocked unconscious by the blow, and the wound bled profusely. His attacker vanished.

The police, who were notified of the occurrence, arrested a man who was standing outside the building. When the man was searched he was found to be in possession of a piece of an iron bed post about two and a-half feet long and about one and a-half inches thick. The man was taken to the police station, where he was charged with having assaulted Holland, inflicting grievous bodily harm upon him. The man denied to the . police that, he was a Jtomhjunisv 1