BRUTAL ASSAULT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 283, 3 December 1935, Page 8

BRUTAL ASSAULT

MECHANIC INJURED STRUCK WITH IKON BAK. [ Per Press Associate on. ] CHRISTCHURCH, Dee. 2. Brutally struck over the head with a heavy’ steel bar by an unknown assailant, John Nelson Brown, cycle machanic, of 37 Shakespeare Road, Waltham, was the victim of a cowardly assault in a workshop in Manchester Street yesterday’ afternoon. Brown suffered concussion and had his scalp laid open for a distance of two inches. Five stitches had to be inserted in t’.i<* wound. He was struck without warning from behind. Brown had a narrow escape from death or serious injury. It is considered that very little more weight behind the blow would have killed him. The man used both hands to wield the bar, which was 17|in. long and an inch in diameter. It had been carefully wrapped in brown paper, the folds being sealed with adhesive paper. Both the assailant and an accomplice escaped after the attack. Apparently the assault was made with the intention of rifling the till, but Brown was not laid unconscious with the blow and fought with his assailant. Brown, who is a young single man. is at present in Christchurch Public Hospital. His coalition at midday to-day was stated to be satisfactory.