BURWOOD ASSAULT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 49, Issue 14955, 5 July 1923, Page 5

BURWOOD ASSAULT.

SUSPECT ARRESTED.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday.

A man with aliases was arrested at a house in New Brighton late this afternoon on a charge of having commit* ted the assault on the young woman at Burwood.

The police visited the house this morning and found the man. had gone. They took possession of a large automatic pistol and then went to Bottle Lake Hospital, where it was thought the man was working. When they got theer they found he had received information of the police pursuit, and had fled to the scrub in the neighbourhood.

A search was then begun, and a party of ten constables was dispatched from the city, but for a long time it was impossible to find any trace of the man.

Late in the afternoon, instead of staying in the scrub and availing himself of its cover, the man broke away; at a spot about a mile down the road from where he was seen, and made tot home. It was near there that he wad arrested by Detective Biekerdyke’s party- ' -.-V". ' ''

i(A previous message stated that . a voung woman had complained of being assaulted by a man at Burwood. The young woman stated that the man presented a pistol at her and , compelled her to conform to his desires. Some doubt was expresed as to the truth of the young woman’s story at the time.)