ATTACKED IN FLAT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 503, 5 November 1928, Page 1

ATTACKED IN FLAT

WOMAN BADLY INJURED

DARLINGHURST MYSTERY

tAustralian and N.Z. Press Association) SYDNEY, 'Sunday.

Mrs. Gwendoline Smith, aged 22, W as found in her flat at Darlinghurst v ith her head badly injured and unconscious. She was taken to hospiand her condition is critical. Mystery surrounds this affair. Mrs. Smith’s husband says they had been popping and his wife returned home before him. When he arrived he saw a strange man with blood on his face ivhp, i“ reply to a question, said he bad made a mistake. The husband says he went to his wife’s room and saw- her lying unconscious. He rushed to the front of the bouse, where the stranger still Angered, and asked him what he had doDe. Smith says the stranger replied: "It must have been the other fellow',’’ inferring that another man had been in the flat. The stranger then jumped through a window and disappeared MANIAC’S FOURTH VICTIM ROCKDALE MURDERER DEAD (UOIIOIOOSSV SS3JJ Z'N pua HDpD.IJSKy ) SYDNEY, Sunday. The death occurred last night or Mr. Joseph Palmer, aged 80, the fourth victim of the religious maniac, Alexander Robb at Rockdale. His demise closes the avenue to a possible elucidation of how the crime was enacted. Robb succumbed to self-inflicted injuries, so that the tragedy has now I involved five deaths.