Mystery Night Marauder.
House windows smashed at Millfield.
Residents in Enderby Road, Millfield, are undergoing a stone-throwing ordeal which started on Monday night and continued last night. Windows of three houses were broken on Monday night, and of two houses last night. Coal and stones – but chiefly pieces of coal – have been thrown at bedroom windows by some mysterious hands. Residents have kept watch, and a policeman also kept watch with them last night, without being able to discover who is the culprit, or from what point he is throwing the coal and stones.
“Everyboday is very nervous,” said Mr William Dunning, a motor driver, of 3 Enderby Street, to a “Sunderland Echo” representative to-day. “On Monday night the coal-throwing started about 8 o’clock and went on at intervals until 1 o’clock in the morning. Windows of three houses were broken and also greenhouse windows. “I had just got home from work last night about a quarter to six when the stone and coal-throwing started again. I went outside and concealed myself, but nothing happened, and immediately I went back into the house the coal-throwing started again. Windows were smashed in two houses. Coals were falling at the feet of a policeman as he was standing in my yard. It is difficult to be quite sure from where the missiles are coming, but we are determined to find out. People living in Enderby Road are becoming afraid to go out at night now.”
Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, 12th December 1935.