PIERCING SCREAMS
WOMAN TERRIFIED
AIAN WITH RIFLE. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 25. Piercing screams. from a room in the Empire Hotel, last evening brought the licensee quickly to a room used by the domestics for changing. Bursting open the door he beheld a terrified young woman and a man holding a rifle. He closed with the man and, after a violent struggle, secured tho weapon. The man then ran downstairs but was arrested later. Ihe man and tho woman had previously been on friendly terms, it is said. Before the magistrate, Mr Levvey, to-dav, Russeil George McCarthy, a£ecl*~23, was charged that, on oeptember 25, he attempted to murder Theresa Mary O’Neill. . On the application of the I>olice. a remand was granted till Tuesday next. '
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 256, 27 September 1929, Page 2
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125PIERCING SCREAMS Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 256, 27 September 1929, Page 2
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