EX-SOLDIER’S ATTACK.
OX PEER’S AYO.AI AN SEC It ETA It V
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
LONDON, November 1. There was a dramatic scene on the fourth floor of Abbey House, Victoria, at the offices of the Income Tax Payers’ Society. Lord Defies, the President said good-night to his secretary. Miss Patricia Johnson, aged twentv- ■ five years, and he was walking downstairs when he hard the girl shrieking. Men clerks were still on the premises and they had seen a caller go to her room. They (found the door locked, hut they forcibly entered. The girl was bleeding from the arm, and there was a man on the window ledge, threatening to hurl himself into the street if anybody approached. The man was dissuaded. lie was lonnu also to he wounded, lie was taken to an hospital, where an operation was performed. The girl is in a critical condition in a nursing home. The girl’s father sKites that she and the man were friends. The latter is a widower, and/lie served in war-time, being shell-shocked.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1928, Page 5
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175EX-SOLDIER’S ATTACK. Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1928, Page 5
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