TRAFFIC INSPECTOR ASSAULTED
CURIOUS INCIDENT IN CITY STREET fPiK Unhid Press Association.] ; WELLINGTON, September 24. Mystery surrounds an assault on Traffic Inspector A. Cook in Willis ■ street last evening by an unidentified .; stranger. Cook now lies in the Wellington Hospital suffering from con- . cession and a lacerated scalp, and the . police are searching for his assailant. Cook was painting white lines on the street when a passing car knocked over a lamp he had placed on the ground nearby. He approached the driver of the car, and while they were talking a bystander interfered. Passers-by were amazed to see the man suddenly strike Cook a heavy blow on the jaw and then make off.
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Evening Star, Issue 22452, 24 September 1936, Page 12
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114TRAFFIC INSPECTOR ASSAULTED Evening Star, Issue 22452, 24 September 1936, Page 12
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