COWARDLY ASSAULT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 29, 4 February 1913, Page 3

COWARDLY ASSAULT

YOUNG LADY KNOCKED ABOUT. AUCKLAND/ 3rd February. 'A cowardly assault upon a young lady occurred at. Mount' Eden on Friday night' ate'the result of which she ie now confined to her house suffering very much fromshock. ' Early on Friday evening a- young- lady who lives at Mount Eden Sad occasion to visit the city. She returned by tram at 10.10 p.m., and got out at. the Symondeatreet- section, and walked down Edenterrace. As she turned into .Wynyardroad she became conscious that someone was walking very, close behind her. She ■was too frightened to turn round to see who ifc was, 60 she kept straight on towards her destination. Suddenly, and 1 without the slightest warning, an arm was* swung behind hsr and she received a violent blow on the mouth. The force ofAtbe blow knocked one tooth out and felled the young lady to the'srrburid. ''* Though daged by the blow sfie had sufficient'presence of mind to scream Joudly for" assistance, whereupon ' her assailant then tried to muffle her cries by, placing his hand ' over her mouth. Her cries, however, had been heard by people living near by, and they rushed, out, only, to. see a dark shadow ' moving off at, a rapid pace. , The young lady was assisted to her feet and taken into a house close I'by.1 ' by. Her face wis badly lacerated, and^ .'as was oflly 'natural, she was .suffering very much from 6hock. • ■ • ' , The person who committed, the- outrage did not attempt to rob .the youn^ lady' or in any other way molest her, and 'no reason can be assigned for the cowardly' assault.