SAVAGE ASSAULT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 149, 16 February 1932, Page 2

SAVAGE ASSAULT

WOMAN ATTACKS ANOTHER WITH HEAVY IRON BAR. A NARREST MADE. SYDNEY, Saturday. Savagely attacked1 by another woman, who foreed a way into her home at Goulburn Street, East Sydney, early last night, Mrs. Elizabeth Crallis (60), collapsed from the effects of terrible head injuries inflicted with an iron bar. Sex-geant Smith and Detective Maynard learned that earlier in the day Mrs. Challis had been punched and kicked by a man. Her story to the police was that she was alone in the house about 6.15 p.m., when a woman, smashing the gate off its hinges, burst in, and, without a word, strode over to where she was standing, near the stove. Dragged by Hair. The woman carried an iron bar about a foot long, with a sharp-edged knob at one end. Catching Mrs. Challis by the hair, she forced her head backwards. The victim writhed in helpless agony as her hair was mercilessly tugged back, and pleaded: "Don't do it! Don't be silly." For answer the woman struek her hard on the head. Mrs. Challis screamed for help, but again and again the cruel instrumelit crashed on to her skull. Many women who were in the streets rushed in through the front and the attacker, throwing the iron bar on the floor, escaped through the back door. Mr. Challis was moaning piteously and had lapsed into unconsciousness when the police arrived, and had her taken to St. Vincent's Hospital in a taxi-cab. Meanwhile, someone had smuggled the iron bar away, but Detective Maynard found it 150 yards further up the street. Subsequently the two oflicers arrested a woman, who js older than Mrs. Challis, on a charge of having inflicted grievous bodily harm.