MACKAY'S MADNESS.

NZ Truth, Issue 103, 8 June 1907, Page 5

MACKAY'S MADNESS.

BITES HIS GIRL'S NOSE.

Fiendish Act of Jealous Lover.

Peer Mary Hall Disfigured for Life.

A' case is reported from Dunedin whioh undoubtedly takes the bun as far as criminal assaults are concernr cd. Eliza Mary Hall was the victim, and when she re-enters the world after a sojourn m the hospital she will be minus half an inch of her smelling organ. It happened m this way. Miss Hall was a loving and lovable girl (Voii can't blame her), and she made Thomas Mackay her interim choice. Tommy first pulled the tail of the domestic cat m Melbourne and was dragged , up \in the same city. One would border on un~ truthfulness to say he was ''bred " there, for his latest manoeuvre goes to prove all the breeding he ever got was harmless. This Melbourne mannikin h A SLIM LITTLE CHAP, without hair on his face, and with a sharp look m his eye. He has seen a thing or two worth seeing with those same gig-lamps. He lighted on Eliza 1 Mary, and Eliza Mary liked being lighted upon. That is the long and short of/. it, and theyi'becameengaged. The cuddling couple skipped

over to Melbourne to be made one. | They went to Melbourne so that the husband-to-be would be under parental control while undergoing the enervating ordeal. Mary declined to^do it, however. We are not told why, but the accepted presumption is that she found out somicfefctog v about her little lover on the way across, or during their stay m Melbourne town which took lite edge off her appetite. On rthe sea voyage she may have ha«l opportunity and found ham to be (quite unsuitable— she probably found he was not the real Mackay ! But to proceed. The hesitating Hall, although she declined to become part of 1 him, made the return journey to Dunedin m company with her rejected ' and rampant red republican. They arrived back m the place of their courting on Saturday, 25th ult., after what might have, been a happy honeymoon. The girl had. not altogether given him up, however, as would appear from the fact that on the very afternoon of their return he was out walking with her. Then it was that this atrocious assault took pla^e. It was enacted m quiet Cas-tle-street, about three o'clock on the Saturday afternoon. By the way, Miss Hall resides just round the corner, m Hanotfer-street. along with her paternal relations and SUNDRY SIMILAR SISTERS, We left this peculiar pair strolling along Castle-street. Frances, a j younger sister of Liza, is walking m I front, after the manner of those who 1 Are sftl£ there eft gYtSerauGe.* Alsei J

after Ike manner of the odd oae, or the goosojberry, she takes a glance backward and witnesses a terrible tragedy. The pair are stooping somewhat, Mackay with his face a* gaiiist the visage of his female com* panion, as if biting her. Presently the fondled one yells out that, her nasal organ has been nipped, and Prances flies back- to her sorelystricken sister., Mackay still has his maulers about her, but a passing gent pulls him off. the now disfigured damsel; What a sight ! A bdpr lump of her nose has been snapped off, and the girl loaks an uncanny sight with the blood pouring from the red root remaining. Without delay she is hustled off by the frettine Frances to the public hospital hard by, where she is at once given a berth. Mackay forgets to return the . nosepiece he poled, and makes no bones about getting as drunk as « drowning dog. Nothing is heard of him until the evening, when he makes for the home of the heroine. The Hall dad is a wee bit dazed when this apeish apparition ambles m and enquires for his dear girl. The old man informs the lad that the individual whom he relqiuires is staying at the hospital that evening. Then MACKAY GETS RILED, then mad, and, finally, abnormally penitent. He romps round the room like a demon. Ultimately he brings up with a happy thought, ' and bounces before Mr Hall withy a lfrrife m. his paw, fc&ggJng .the parent :to slay him like a sheep. He is so horribly sorry for his wicked deed.

(Somehow, the girl's governor declines, and despatches two of the younger fry for police protection. When the giant of justice shows its face m the person of one Fox, the evildoer is just about frothing af%he mouth. The constable acts promptly and the two ca.b it to the police statiorii,. . where the landed fish is found to be still m a frenzy. He is really temporarily insane, and is put safely by until Monday morn. By 10.30 on Monday, he had sabered up spiffingly, and when he made his bow m the police court he looked almost spruce. The case could not be proceeded with as long as the victim was absent, so the Bench remanded the case to give Miss Hall time to recover, asking the murderous Mackay \to find £50 bail on his own account and get two others, to send m Emther fifty each. Might as well ask him lor a million at once, so Mackay meantime keeps to his. own room m the Government boardinghouse. He is some- sort 'of a , canvasser or hawker, ami consequently has nobody to back him up to the tune of two score and ten. The yarn goes round that the fellow . THREATENED TO DISFIGURE HIS GIRL previously m Ohristchurch!.. 'Jealousy is \ put forward as the impelling power, and m putting his' talons clean through her nose he has made her almost hideous for life. He certainly determined if she would not marry him, she weuM Bel be #t »ge