SCREAMS IN HOTEL
BOARDERS AROUSED. YOUNG MAN ARRESTED. attempt to murder cook ALLEGED. • rOLICE OBTAIN REMAND. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTC'HURCH, this day. Russell George McCarthy, aged 23. was charged in the Police Court to-day thai yesterday he attempted to murder Theresa Mary .O'Neill. On' the'application of the police a .remand was granted till Tuesday next. Piercing screams from a room in the Empire Hotel last night brought the licensee quickly to the room used by domestics for changing. Bursting open the door,, he beheld a terrified young woman and a man holding a. rifle. He closed with the man and, after a violent struggle secured the weapon. The man then" ran downstairs, but he was arrested later. The man and woman had, it is said, been on friendly terms.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 228, 26 September 1929, Page 9
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129SCREAMS IN HOTEL Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 228, 26 September 1929, Page 9
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