RAZED & BLEEDING
ASSAULT IN AUCKLAND STREET VICTIM TAKEN TO HOSPITAL. ATTACKED BY THREE STRANGE MEN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. August 15. Dazed and bleeding from wounds in the head and face, Mr Hugh Twidle. aged 47, Glen Eden, was found wandering along Lome Street in the city early tonight. He was taken by two passers-by to the St. John Ambulance station, and, on the way to hospital, he told a constable that he had been assaulted by three men unknown to him. He is suffering from concussion, but his condition is not serious. Mr Twidle said that, soon after six o’clock, he was talking to some mon outside the Clarendon Hotel in Wakefield Street. He moved away and was joined by three men he had not before.
It is said that they asked him to walk with them to the corner of Lome and Rutland Streets, and, as they halted, he was suddenly struck on the head. Blows were rained on his head and face, and he remembered little more till he was discovered by two men about half an hour later in an obviously distressed condition, staggering from side io side in Lome Street. He was given first aid treatment at the ambulance station and sent to hospital.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1939, Page 6
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