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Wanganui Assault Victim still semi-c0nsc10us
(By Telegraph
"WANGANUI,. Last Night. Although inquiries were continued to-day by the Wanganui police with the utmost vigour. no fresh developments occurred in connection with tho brutal a&sault made on Mrs Una Thompson, aged 25, on the footpath on Anzac Barade early on Sunday morning-. She is ' still in a state of - semi-con-sciousness in the Wanganui Public Hospital, suffering from the effects *of at least five bloWs on the head administered by some heavy blunt instrument. H^r injuries consist of a fractured skull, scalp wounds and an injury to the left hand. Her condition 'is showing a slight improvement, but until she regaina consciousness sufficiently to tell a conpected story the police will have little of a concrete nature to work on. The detectives in Wanganui have been augmented by the arrival of a further detective iroin Palnierston North.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 10, 5 October 1937, Page 6
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