Rabaul Woman
p. 20 · Read in the full issue
Attacked
On "Duntroon"
Lae, November 26.
A HURRIED court-case was held here after the “Duntroon” got in, en route from Sydney to Rabaul, and a ships’ steward, Andrew Smith, was found guilty of being unlawfully in a passeng er’s cabin, and sentenced to two months imprisonment in the Territory. He will be deported when he has served his term.
The passenger was the wife of Ter ritory police-officer, who was on her way to Rabaul to rejoin him. While the ship was between Port Moresby and Lae, on the night of November 20, the woman awoke to find a man standing over her with a slipper in his upraised hand. He had awakened her by striking her a blow on the head. She screamed, and tried to leave the cabin, and a struggle ensued.
Finally, she broke from him and ran out of the cabin calling for help. Her at tacker was identified as Smith.