DIMINUTIVE NURSE BESTS GIANT ROBBER.
Although less than five feet iii height. Miss Mary Lytross, nurse at the. Kind's Country Hospital, gut tlic better of .1 Oft. highwayman who attacked her early on the morning of Aprii 27 in Albany Avenue, near Church Avenue, New York.
SIIO w;ts returning to the hospital. The man leaned at her from behind and. placing one hand over her mouth, triad ■to her silver mesh hag away. nle struggled, and, filling her arms, swung about and beat the robber over the head with the bag, at the same time screaming lustily. The attack omtred in front of the Church of St Catherine of Genoa, and a« slio struggled with the robber one of the priests, who had been awakened, raised the window and shouted for help. The highwayman then broke away from the young woman andtied.
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 290, 6 July 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)
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142DIMINUTIVE NURSE BESTS GIANT ROBBER. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 290, 6 July 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)
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