WAYLAID AT NIGHT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13662, 28 March 1908, Page 2

WAYLAID AT NIGHT.

QISBORNE, March 28. A member'ttf the'oml service who was visiting here was waylaid by three men one everting this yeek. He" was stopped and taxed theVtime. When he was replying he was struck in the face by one v man. ' He was successfully combating the attack when another of the jbrio felled him from behind with a blow on the nape of the neck. The assailants ' then decamped, fearing, probably, tKat they had ddhe him serious harm, "r Tho visitor lay unconscious in the roadway for a considerable time/ The police are investigating the matter.