SCREAMS OF TERROR

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 937, 2 April 1930, Page 1

SCREAMS OF TERROR

SCATTER IN ALBERT PARK SUNDAY NIGHT ALARM Possibly bearing in mind, the sensational event of two evenings before when a young woman, had been attacked in Princes Street by a who endeavoured to stifle her with an ammonia-soaked rag, discreet Sunday evening strollers left Albert Park abruptly when screams of terror came out of the darkness about 9.15. A fleeing form was seen to run from the direction of Princes Street into the park. There the fugitive leapt nimbly to the lower branches of a tree and swung himself up out of sight. He was observed by a man who stationed himself under the tree in anticipation of the arrival of the police. Seeing his refuge was discovered the man came rapidly down to the ground again and sped off in the direction of the city before the sentry was fully aware that he had gone. , A sergeant and two constables who investigated the cause of the screams found that there was a simple explanation. An Auckland man and his wife were travelling slowly in their motor-car near the intersection of Bowen Avenue and Princes Street when the headlights shone on what the woman thought was a bundle of clothes. She alighted to make sure and when she was only a few feet from it, the bundle suddenly became animated, and resolved itself into the figure of a man who immediately bolted. The woman, quite naturally, screamed. The man was small in stature and wore a suit of dungarees and white shoes. He was dark-skinned and appeared to be a seaman. Why he was lying at the roadside is still a mystery.