GIRL ATTACKED
ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL
ASSAILANT INJURES SELF TOO. (l J er Press Associution —■ Copyright o DUNEDIN, November 14. Attacked with ja hammer in her room in Queen btreet eany tin's'morning,' Ruth Eleanor Corlet, 19 years ot iifee- Suffered a broken left arm and sc;alp wounds. Fifty minutes after her admission to the hospital, Thomas Poulson, aged 47 her alleged assailant, walked into the hospital with:" a, wound in hi| throat, apparently B- inflicted with . razor. I'iie condition of neither is’ serious. It is alleged that Pqulson had been keeping company with another young woman, a resident in the same boardinghouse, and that he entered Miss Corlet’s room by mistake, and that after, some talk with Miss Corlet about the other girl, he struck her with a hammer. Then, returning to, his own home, he inflicted a- throat wound. Poulson is a dental rnechariic, but lately had been doing canvassing.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1932, Page 3
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150GIRL ATTACKED Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1932, Page 3
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