BRUTAL ASSAULT BY THREE MASKED MEN.
WOMAN'S PLUCK PUTS THIEVES TO FLIGHT.
(Special to the “Star.”) LONDON, May 14.
A woman’s story of how she put to flight three masked men whom she found attacking her husband in his bedroom was told at the Marylebone Police Court yesterday. Before the Magistrate, on remand, were George Warren, twenty-one, a.nd Jack Leroy, twenty-four, of King Edward Street, Lambeth, who were charged with being concerned with 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. Warren was in the service of Mr and Mrs Jacobs as butler at the time of the alleged assault.
Butted with Head. Mrs Jacobs, in the witness box, said that she was awakened on Easter Sunday morning by wild shrieks and thuds.
She rushed to her husband’s bedroom. He was standing at the foot of the bed surrounded by three masked men, and bleeding from wounds. “ I butted one of the men with my head,” said Mrs Jacobs, “ and then wrenched my husband from them, threw him on the bed and turned to the men. “ The tallest one I knocked on the jaw, and he flew downstairs. The other two I knocked with my elbows, 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 his bedroom? If not, I have him here.’
“As the man wrenched himself out of my grasp, his hat and his mask fell off. I ran downstairs after him.
“ I followed the men to the top of 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.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18496, 23 June 1928, Page 11
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