BRUTAL ASSAULT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 76, 20 November 1931, Page 6

BRUTAL ASSAULT

YOUNG GIRL ATTACKEDON LONELY ROAD MAN FRIGHTENED BY SCREAMS SYDNEY, Nov. 7. . Following a brutal attack on a L young girl at Canterbury on Thurs- [ day night, a second girl, aged 15, was , vieiously assaulted in a lonely Five ( Dock street last night. » Dishevelled, with her jacket torn at the elbow, she burst into her parents' home in Blackwall Point-road and, sobbing bitterly, described how 1 she had been stopped by a man and hurled to the roadway. The man, she said; leapt at her from behind a telegraph post, but | evidently startled by her terrified . screams, he released her and darted : away. Immediately after the girl had told her story a group of relatives hurried to the scene of the attack, and for almost an hour scoured the dense bushes and undergrowth that line the roadway. The road at this point is particularly lonely and illlighted, and is fronted on one side by acres of Chinese market gardens, brush and scrub. Said Nothing The girl, who was still obviously distressed from her experience, said this morning that the attack was entirely unexpected, and that during the whole time she struggled with the man not one word was uttered by him. She is a well-developed girl for her age, and of a quiet and retiring disposition. According to her story, she had left home shortly after 7 o'clock to go to Five Docks to exchange*a number of library books. About an hour later she was returning along Blackwall Point-road, when she noticed a man running past her. She took no notice of the incident, until after rounding a corner, about 200 yards from her home, she was suddenly confronted by a tall, hatless man. "I did not see his face — it all happened so quickly," she said in a low voice. "It was an awful experience It semed as though he reached to grab my throat, caught me a heavy blow on the chest, and set me back on the ground. I screamed. Then he leaned over me, and forced his hand over my mouth." She broke free, however, and screamed again, her cries ringing out along the deserted street. The man, according to the girl, was aparently young. He was hatless, and resembled the youth who had run past her a few moments before the attack.