SENSATIONAL ASSAULT.
ATTACK ON A FARMER'S WIFE
[Per Pkkss Association. ) Ashburton,' November 28.
A serious assault is reported to have occurred at Winslow, about six miles from Ashburton, yesterday afternoon, when a farmer's wife was most brutally attacked by an unknown man. The victim was in her garden, when a stranger appeared and asked foi work, and this not being available, For food. She went into the house to give the man a meal, but he followed her in, and saying, "It's not food 1 want, but you!" He threw lier down heavily, and dragged her into the kitchen, where he attempted to assault her. The woman resisted and screamed, and the intruder attempted to gag her with her apron. A little daughter of the house was attracted b\ the struggle, and her mother managed to tell her to go and call her father, who was at work some considerabh distance from the homestead. Til. child went outside and returned, am the mother's exclamation. "Here he comes!" though a ruse, had the desired effect, the man rushing away. He had driven up to the farm in a now gig, drawn by a chestnut horse, which he tied to the gate. While the struggle was proceeding, a traction-engine, in charge of two men, came along the road. The horse became frightened, and one of the men on the engine untethered the animal and took it inside the gate while the engine passed. Just then the miscreant came out of tinhouse, and hurriedly approached the trap. He was handed the reins, and drove quickly away. The enginemen were strangers to the district, and were unaware that anything was wrong. They did not attempt to prevent the man escaping. The husband was sent for, and immediately drove to Ashburton for the police, but so far there is no further news of the perpetrator's movements. The police were still searching for him to-night.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 76, 29 November 1913, Page 5
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319SENSATIONAL ASSAULT. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 76, 29 November 1913, Page 5
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