WOMAN STABBED IN DARK

Taranaki Daily News, 3 April 1934, Page 7

WOMAN STABBED IN DARK

ATTACKED ON LONELY TRACK ) WELLINGTON OUTRAGE BY NIGHT. WOUNDS MADE IN MANY PLACES. MAN .APPROACHES POLICE'LATER.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Attacked on a lonely track across the town belt to-night Mrs. D. Heimdal, 29 Finnimore Terrace, Vogeltown, was stabbed in several places. Later a man went to the Taranaki Street police station and it is understood he said he had stabbed the woman. Mrs. Heimdal, who is a middle-aged woman, had been down to the Levin Memorial Home in Britomart Street, Berhampore, where her two youngest children live, and was returning home. The locality where the attack was made is a track along a grass-covered hillside, with scattered bushes, gorse and manuka. The houses are 200 yards or so apart. , . Mrs. Heimdal was gashed in the neck and received wounds in the right breast, the abdomen and the left hand. She succeeded in staggering home. The other inmates of the house obtained medical assistance. She was admitted to the hospital, where her condition was found not to be serious.