N.Z. Nurse Tells Story of Attack in Sydney.
SAYS WELL-DRESSED MAN OFFERED HER LIFT IN CAR AND THEN ASSAULTED HER. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received May 21, 11.0 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 21. A NURSING SISTER at Wheatley Private Hospital, in Crow’s Nest suburb, told an extraordinary story to a newspaper reporter. She declares that she missed the train from Roseville suburb to tlie city. When a well-dressed man with a pleasant voice offered to take her in bis car to the city, she consented, but was driven into the scrub five miles away, where the man brutally assaulted her. He tore lifer clothes nearly off and gave her three kicks. Then he drove off. The nurse was too embarrassed to call the attention of other people in other cars. She stated that she arrived from New Zealand nine months ago to take up nursing at Wheatley Hospital.—Australian Press Association.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18468, 21 May 1928, Page 1
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