WOMEN ASSAULTED

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 2, 4 January 1939, Page 5

WOMEN ASSAULTED

WORK OF 1938

ONE HIT WITH BOTTLE

PROWLING AT DUNEDfN

(By Telegraph—Pres9 Association.)

DUNEDIN, January 3,

On two consecutive nights women in the streets of the city have been assaulted by unknown men or possibly by the same man. ,

The first assault took place at about 10 p.m. on Sunday, when a married woman was assaulted by an unknown man in Haywood Street, near Patrick Street. The woman was struck on the head with a bottle, which broke, causing considerable bruising and a slight scalp wound. When the woman began to scream her assailant endeavoured to silence her by clasping his hand over her mouth. Fortunately two men were in the vicinity and the assailant, ori seeing them, fled in the direction of Glen Road. The woman's condition was not serious but she required medical treatment.

At approximately the same time tonight in a lonely part of Cumberland Street a single woman who was walking home alone heard footsteps close behind her. She half turned and glanced back, seeing a man, who immediately caught hold of her by the shoulders. The woman screamed', her assailant then seizing her by t> throat with both hands. Attracted by the woman's screams a passing cyclist rode up and the assailant made off hastily.