A MYSTERIOUS MISHAP.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 101, 27 April 1912, Page 5

A MYSTERIOUS MISHAP.

WATCHMAN'S JAW DISLOCATED.

ACCIDENT OR ASSAULT?

Charles Warnford, aged 72, a married man residing in Mountain-road, Morningside, is lying in the District Hospital with a dislocated jaw and -an injured molar bone. How he came by the wounds is a matter of complete mystery, even to the victim himself. Warnford is <] night watchman a. Gtvldir's timber mil!, near the Railway Wharf, and ho went on duty an usual a;, b o'clock last evening. When the j time <.ome for bun to go off at 9 p.m. the relieving watchman noticed that Warnfor.l face was bleeding and that h? appeared to have, been knocked abojt. lie was too dszea, however, to give any ai'ounl. a.3 to how it had happened, ana snimply asked the other watchman to put him in a trarncar 6O that he couli go home. This was done, after a handkerchief had been tied round he injured face. Before the Ktcgsland car had proceeded very far up "Quean-street, however, the motorman noticed that the distressed passenger -was, apparently in great pa<-n. and at the nest stop lie railed a pnH;p.rn?n. The latter took Warn ford to Wilps' chemist shop, and iindins th.it; the injuries were of a serious • nature, ho. drove him to the reiid"Dc.e of Dr. Stride <Ln 5-yarOHds-street. Here he. J received attention -and was then con

veyed to the hospital. Inquiri":--. made at the latter institution by a >t.ir" rep<"TlPr just before ! going to pre<* di&o;o»°.l that the patient ' hid recoverc.l complete ' At the .same time he «3« quite at a. loss ' t'-. account for his condition. *■] can't . remember anything about it," ho said, i As it is not known whether anyone was j about the o;ii -when the mishap occurred the only ro.iciueion that can be come to i< that Warrrford was either thp victim' of a fall or of a personal assault. | i - ~ I ._ . .~~~ '