A DISAGREEABLE SURPRISE.
[united press association.] Auckland, 27th May. A man named Fred. Goodall, barman at the Waverley Hotel, received a letter from a Mrs. Maner, with whom ha had formed an acquaintance, telling him that her husband had left for Te Aroha that morning, and asking him to come up in the evening to her residence, which is a two-storied balconied house in Upper Queen-street. He did so, and after some conversation in the sittingroom Goodall entered the bedroom, which was dark, when the husband sprang out of a recess, and commenced a murderous assault on him with the leg of a chair. A desperate etrncrglo ensued, both men falling through a glass door, and Maher endeavored to throw Goodall over the balcony into the street Goodall' s cries of "Murder" brought help, and he was rescued. His nose was bitten throngn, and hands and face cut with the glass and otherwise injured.
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Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 123, 28 May 1881, Page 2
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154A DISAGREEABLE SURPRISE. Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 123, 28 May 1881, Page 2
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