Accuses Cabaret Dancer of "Crowning"
The peaceful slumbers of a young Russian cabaret assistant in his boarding-house room in Lane 303, Range Road, were rudely interrupted sharily before midnight on February 24, In the dark he leaped from bed, clutched ata place on his forehead from which " blood was owing, painfully sow the door open, then shut again quickly, and heard the steps of a fleeing person, evidently a woman, running down the corridor, Alter the light had been switched on, he realized what had. occurred, By his bed lay the fragments of a water bottle which had been broken fon his head. A. neighbour, seeing, hhis wound, took him to the Shanghat ilarium Clinic, close by, and. an ugly gash over the left eye was sewed up, The victim, who is employed at a Russian cabaret in Vu Yuen Road, later admitted that he had been drinking during the evening, "He id he suspected a young. Russian cabaret dancer, employed in Jukong, Road, as his assailant. The motive, hho thought, involved 'a debt "which he had delayed paying her.
'A search has been started for the cabaret dancer,
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