A STRANGE STORY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 11, 11 January 1913, Page 7

A STRANGE STORY.

YOUNG MAN WOUNDED. Broken Hill, December 31. A case possessing remarkable features lias come under tiio notice of the Broken Hill police. It centres in a story of a young man named Malone, aged 19, who resides at South Broken Hill. Malone, it transpires, lias been keeping company with a girl, and on Sunday night last, about 10.30, lie lefc tier at the front gate of her parents’ residence in Bromide Street. Before leaving his sweetheart he told her he had heard a fanliliar whistle coming from the vicinity of the Waterworks Hill, which overlooks a portion of Bromide Street. Malone decided to investigate, as the whistle, according to his version, was similar to the one he was in the habit of using when working on a boat. He commenced to climb the hill in the direction of the whistle, but before he got far he saw a shadow, and felt a sharp pain in the region of the heart. Ho fired a revolver, which he was accustomed to carry, but saw nothing vanish but the shadow. Malone can throw no more light on the subject, but, according to information that reached the police, Mrs. Lord, who resides in Mica Street, heard a peculiar noise some distance away from her house, and, on looking towards the locality from which the sounds came, saw what appeared to be like two men scuffling on the ground. One man got up and ran away, and a few moments later .Malone staggered towards her, holding a handkerchief over his breast, from which blood was streaming. Malone was taken to the residence of the girl in whose company he had been earlier in the evening, and Dr. Hams subsequently dressed the wound, which, it is believed, was caused by a penknife or a similar small instrument.