Alleged Startling Occurrence.
Auckland, January 21. A somewhat startling occurrence is reported to have taken place at Paeroa yesterday afternoon. It is alleged that a man named Thomas Carroll while shaking hands with a gentleman named Eobert Jewell drew a bottle of acid from his pocket and threw the contents over Jewell's face and clothes. The latter was badly burnt about the faces, aid large holes were burnt in his clothes. The culprit, it is said, then left for Auckland. Constable Beatty arrived from Paeroa this afternoon, and an information was laid against Thomas Carroll in counectioa with the occurrence and a warrant issued for his arrest. Later. , It transpires that the victim of the Paeroa outrage was a man named Jackson and not Jewel, as pieviously stated. So far the police have not effected Carroll's arrest, and it is con jectured he may have left by the southern steamer yesterday.
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Thames Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 8566, 22 January 1897, Page 2
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151Alleged Startling Occurrence. Thames Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 8566, 22 January 1897, Page 2
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