LEWISTON, Minn. – A badly battered woman was brought to the Winona hospital by a friend after a savage assault at a house in the Aches neighborhood on U.S. Highway 14. The woman told deputies that she had been crashing several days at the house and was sleeping on the kitchen floor when she woke being punched on the head. This was about 2:45 a.m. The houseowner told deputies that he heard the commotion down the hall from his bedroom and saw the intruder bashing the woman on the back of her head. She had been bleeding profusely by the time that the houseowner got her the emergency room. The woman said she took three blows in all. The woman, age 25, from Rochester, said she had a known the intruder a few weeks and had told him she didn’t to see him anymore. How the man gained access to the house wasn’t clear. The house-owner ordered the intruder to leave. The man left but on his way out said he would bash the woman’s car. Although shaken ,the woman was coherent at the hospital but said she had blacked out and seen stars after the the first blow. The houseowner took the woman 14 miles to the Winona hospital. Sheriff Ron Ganrude said an alert was issued for the arrest of a 39-year-old Winona man about 5-foot-10 and 150 pounds with brown eyes.
