A MYSTERIOUS ASSAULT.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 448, 16 March 1912, Page 5

A MYSTERIOUS ASSAULT.

ACCUSED COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. [MY TKLKOIIAriI. —I'RKSS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, This Day. At the Police Court yesterday, Bernard Hilton Moss was committed for ttial on a charge of having assaulted Mrs Maria New, causing actual bodily harm. Chief Detective Marsack, in opening the case against accused, said for some time past cases of women being knocked down by a mysterious assailant in the vicinity of Epsom and Remuera had been reported to the police. In each case a single blow had been given. No attempt had been made to rob or otherwise interfere with the women. In every other instance the assailant had escaped without being recognised. In the present case Mrs New saw the person who assaulted her and identified him as the accused.

Mrs New, in evidence, stated that when she was proceeding home at 11 p.m. accused followed her and as she was crossing the road to her house accused struck her. She became unconscious and when she recovered she was lying on the road with four teeth broken, and saw accused running off. She had money and jewellery on her, but was not robbed. Nothing was done to her except the blow. Accused, who pleaded not guilty, waß allowed bail in two sureties of £75 each.