ATTEMPTED MURDER.
A REJECTED LOVER. STABS PRETTY GIRL. • • '*■'?* Association— lilectrie Telegraph—Copyright (Received Wednesday, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, Tuesday. While the city streets were most crowded with men and women leaving their offices, a pretty Irish girl named Josephine O’Reilly, reeled screaming into Lombard street from St. George’s Yard, with a knife wound in her side. In St. George’s Yard a young man was found lying with a wound above the heart.
The girl was carried into Barclay’s Bank ( where she was employed, and afterwards taken to the hospital, where she Avas found to be seriously hurt and unable to make a coherent statement.
The man is named Rodney Gear;', a clerk in the London County Council offices. He was only slightly hurt. He had been seen talking to the girl. It is understood that he wished t»marry her, but she rejected his suit.— Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 49, Issue 14960, 11 July 1923, Page 5
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