VIOLENT ASSAULT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1941, Page 6

VIOLENT ASSAULT

ANOTHER MAN INJURED IN CHRISTCHURCH IN PROTECTION OF PROPERTY. STRUGGLE WITH PROWLER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The second man in a few days to be injured in the protection of his property against robbery was admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital at 8.30 last evening. The victim, who is now in hospital, is Mr H. N. Vincent, who has a large leather goods shop at 62 Manchester Street. Living along in rooms above the shop, Mr Vincent heard last evening the footsteps of a prowler at the back of his premises, and although he is 66 years of age he went down single-handed to investigate. He is now lying in hospital suffering from head injuries. Mr Vincent was unable to give, this morning, a clear account of what happened last evening, but it appears that he heard someone trying to force an entry at the back of his shop, where a similar attempt was made some time ago. Going down from his rooms, he accosted a stranger in an adjoining vacant section, where they came to grips, tiampled grass showing where they struggled until Mr Vincent was either felled by a blow on the head or was thrown down and struck his head on one of the broken bricks or fragments of broken concrete that lie about in the grass.