"A MYSTERIOUS ASSAILANT."
SUSPECT COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. (By TelcErapu.-PrcES Association.) ~.. _~ Auckland, March 10. At the Police Court, Bernard Hilton was committed for trial on a charge of having assaulted Mrs. Maria New, , causing her actual bodily harm. Detective Marsack, in opening the case against accused, said that for some time past cases of women being knocked down by a mysterious assailant in tho vicinity of Epsom and Remuera had been reporteil to tho police. In each case a single blowhad been given, but no attempt was inado to rob or otherwise interfere with the women. In every other instance tho assailant escaped without being recognised. In thu present case Mrs. New snw tho person who assaulted her and identified him as accused. Mrs. Now, in her evidence, stated that when sho was proceeding homo at 11 p.m. tho accused followed her. As sho was crossing the road to her house accused struck her. She became unconscious, and when sho recovered she was lying on'the road with teeth broken. Silo saw accused running oil , . She had money and jewellery on her, but was not robbed, and nothing was dono to her except tho blow. Accused, who pleaded not guilty, wns allowed bail in two sureties of each.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1391, 18 March 1912, Page 4
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206"A MYSTERIOUS ASSAILANT." Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1391, 18 March 1912, Page 4
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