SERIOUS ASSAULT.
STICKING-UP CASE AT GISRQRNE.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
GISBORNE, this day.
A member of the Civil service, when visiting Gisborne, was waylaid by three men one evening this week. He was stopped and asked the time, and, when replying, was struck in the face by one man. He was successfully combating the attack, when another of the trio felled him from behind with' a blow on the nape of the neck. Hfs assailants then decamped, fearing, probably, that they had done him serious harm. The visitor lay unconscious in the roadway a considerable time. The police are investigating the matter.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 76, 28 March 1908, Page 7
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