NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1929, Page 5

NEWS BY MAIL.

HOLE BORED IN GIRL’S FOOT. POLICE SEARCH FOR CYCLIST. LONDON, Nov. 12. The Surrey police are looking For a man who attacked Joyce Baldwin, aged 3, o)f ICollingwood ho ad, Sutton, as she was walking home from school with a little friend yesterday morning. A man on a bicycle stopped and asked her if he could look at her shoes'. Joyce, being rather bewildered, said, “Yes.” . Hie man took up her foot, placed it between his legs, and bored a hole through her shoes and into her foot with a gimlet. He asked the child if he had hurt her, and when she replied “Yes,” he dropped her foot and said, “All right; now you can go home.” Ho then rode away on his bicycle,. “I do not know wliat lie-did, but it hurt me,” said Joyce last «vening. “I was afraid to cry because I thought I might be taken away by a policeman.” Mr Baldwin, the girl’s father, showed a “Daily Mail” reporter the girl’s shoes. Two holes had been bored through a thick sole and the upper part had been cut in two places. “Joyce limped home and her foot was bleeding badly when she arrived,” said her father.

SAW DAUGHTER, SHOT. MOTHER’S STRUGGLE WITH JEALOUS MAN. BRISTOL, November 12. A dramatic story of a mother’s struggle to save her daughter from an armed man in a state of insane jealousy was related at the inquest to-day on Gladys Dorothy May Martin, aged 1-7, and George Stanley Kingston,. 37, both of Hembridge, Somerset, who were shot on Sunday morning. The inquest was held by Mr E. E. Wooile, the coroner, in a cottage adjoining the scene of tho shooting.

Mrs Martin related how Kingston entered the house armed with a gun. She knew he was going to shoot her daughter, and she seized his arm, but lie pushed her aside. Kingston fired twice at her daughter as the girl rushed down the stairs in her nightclothes to escape from him. A neighbour related how sho sav Kingston run past tho window towards an empty cottage at tho bottom of the garden. A few moments later sho heard a report and saw him stagger from the cottage towards his own home.

There he was found later by tho police wounded in the abdomen. In moments of consciousness, he said: “I wish I had done myself in. f. would have, but the gun slipped.” Ho also expressed a wish that lie could get up and get at some poison he had outsido.

Evidenco was given by Mr Henry Kingston, a farmer, that since returning from the war his son had been very unstable in mind. He would stand outside the girl’s house watching it alid waiting to see if any other man came home with her. They had not walked out together because she was too

young. The jury returned a verdict of murder against Kingston, and- found that he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.