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Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1921, Page 1

WINDOW SLASHER. LONDON, April 12. The London police are searching for a man who has been cutting valuable plate glass windows in various districts, including the West End. With the aid of a glazier’s diamond or a diamond ring he has slashed hundreds of big shop windows. 1 lie total damage amounts to thousands of pounds. It, is thought that lie operates late at night and in the early hours of the morning, and Sir W illiam Hotwood, Commissioner of Police, has given instructions for a special watch to he maintained., Many cushions in railway compartments, taxicabs, and omnibuses have recently been maliciously cut open, and it is possible that all the outrages are tlie work of the same man. BRANDED WIFE. PARTS, April 12. Finding his wife, of whom he had been jealous for some time, in conversation with a strange man, a baker at Ansignan, a village near Perpignan, knocked her senseless with his fist, cut her face with a. razor, and branded ber body with a torch.

Then picking her up ho carried her to a village ball and threw lierdown among the horrified dancers. While the dancers crowded round the maimed woman the husband walked away and gave himself up to the police.