WOMAN ATTACKED
IN AUCKLAND SUBURB. ASSAILANT ESCAPES. (By Telegraph—Press Association? AUCKLAND, January 14. For the third time within a week a woman was attacked in the street by an unidentified man last night. The assault occurred at midnight in Erson Avenue, Royal Oak district, when a young woman was punched and knocked down by an assailant who decamped after she screamed. She alighted from a tram and was two doors from her home when assaulted. She was running, as rain was falling. When observed, the man had run up alongside her. He seized her arm and punched her face, and she fell on the footpath. Attempting to stop her screams, he put his hands over her mouth. A man and his wife ran. out in their night attire from a nearby house, and the assailant released his hold and ran. The woman had a nasty cut on the mouth, a black eye, bruises and abrasions. It is significant that the assaults have occurred at three widely-separated points in the city.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 January 1943, Page 2
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