SHOCKING EXPERIENCE

Chronicle (Levin), 9 October 1946, Page 5

SHOCKING EXPERIENCE

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w ■ Young Woman Dragged Into Car and Assauited . . NEW SOUTH WALES CRIME ;

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Received Tuesday, 8.40 .p.m. SYDNEY, Oct. S. Dazed and with mue'h of her clothing torn off, a young married woman wandered into the Corrimal railway station 011 the South Coast of New Soiith Waies, and told an incoherent story of how she 1 had been dragged into a car and branct- 1 ed with e-igarette butts by two youths. Detectives believe that she was crinuiially assauited while unconscious. The woman, aged 25, is the mother oi a five-year-old girl and lives with her ex-serviceman 'msband at Corrimal. She said that at S.30 p.'m. yesjterday slie went to a nearby plione booth. A large nlack car pulled up and a young man asked where a certain address was. She told him the address was opposite her house and he offered to take her home. As she opened the back door of the car, a youth who had been lying on the floor, seized her wrist and, dragging her m, clapped nis uuier hand over her moutti. The car drove off and she had only a hazy recollection of what happenea after that. The car drove some distance and when it stopped the driver also got into the back' seat. Sne vaguely remenibered her clothing bemg interfered with and was later draggeu from the car. One man hit her in tlie t'ace with his fist. When she regainea conseiousness a man was foreing a bottle of wine to her lips. She saw tne men with liglited cigarettes and faintea again. Today she is being treated for shoek and cigarette burns wliich cover the upper part of her body.