STREET ASSAULT
MAN BADLY BATTERED AUCKLAND INCIDENT ATTACK BY THREE MEN STORY OF VICTIM ( Pit Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Dazed -and bleeding from wounds in the head and face. Hugh Twidle, aged 47 years, Glen Eden, was found wandering along Lome street, City, early last night. He was taken by two passers-by to a St. John Ambulance station and on ‘ the way to the hospital he told a constable he had been assaulted by three men unknown to him. He is suffering from concussion, but his condition is not serious. Twidle said that shortly after 6 o’clock, he was talking to some men outside the Clarendon Hotel in Wakefield street. He moved away and was joined by three men he had not seen before.
It is said that they asked him to walk with them to the corner of Lome and Rutland streets - and; as they halted on the corner, he was suddenly struck on the head. Blows were rained on his head and face, and he remembered little more until he was discovered by two men about half an hour later in an obviously distressed condition, staggering from side to side in Lome street. He was given first aid treatment at the ambulance station and sent to the hospital.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20017, 16 August 1939, Page 13
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211STREET ASSAULT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20017, 16 August 1939, Page 13
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