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LITTLE GIRL’S EXPERIENCE. FATHER TO RESCUE MELBOURNE, April IS. Dorothy Morgan, aged 10, living with her parents at City-road, South Melbourne, had a terrifying experience early to-day. At 1.45 u.m., aroused by the sound of crashing glass in a sitting-room, in which the child tad been sleeping, her father, Alfred Morgan, sprang out of bed, and flurried to the room. As he did so, a man leaped acrcss the couch on which the little girl had been sleeping, jumped through a window, aid disappeared. Dorothy ran to her father, who found that her mouth bad been crammed with brown paper to prevent her screaming. The gagging had been done with Buch force as to lacerate the child’s lips. Three id jss dishes, which had been on a sidebdSrrcl, were lying broken upon toe floor. . f' The premises occupied by Morgan are used as a nhop and dwelling, Mr* Morgan using the front portion as a confectionery shop, while Morgan follows his occupation a* a oarriei'. Nothing was stolen. Police believe that the man who gagged tho little girl entered the house witn the objeot of robbing the till in the shop.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 128, 4 May 1925, Page 10
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