MYSTERIOUS ATTACK

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 143, 19 June 1931, Page 3

MYSTERIOUS ATTACK

SLEEPING MAN WOUNDET Sydney detectives have been irveetl* gating a mysterious attack upon a sleeping man and the poisoning of his wife, at their homo at Newtown, earfy one morning recently. They are Mr Louis De Clauzel, aged 42, and his wife. About 2 a.m. a 17 year-old girl ran into tho police station almost distraught with grief. She said that she had been awakened by her younger brother. Her [mother was lying groaning on her bed alongside her. Her brother Uld her that their father, with whom he had been sleeping in an upstairs bedroom, v.as lying on his bed bleeding from a wound in his neck. When tho police arrived nt the house they found that the man was semi-con-scious. There was a gaping wound in his neck. Apparently he had been attacked with a sharp instrument while he was asleep. Tho ocdclothes were saturated with blood. His wife, meanwhile, was writhing in pain in her bed. She was obviously suffering from the effects of poison. The man and woman were taken to a hospital.