THE MURDEROUS ASSAULT AT NAPIER.
INFOBSIATION was brought to Dr. Spencer, yesterday afternoon, to the effect that a nmn was ljing at Mrs. Morton's boarding-house in a state of insensibility, with his head battered in. On going to the house mentioned, lie found that the information was corroct, and that tho man (whose name, it appears, is Joseph Cawley, and who has been recently working on the Taupo road,) had been Jviug there since Friday night, and had neither spoken nor eaten anything since that time. His recovery is very doubtful. Dr. Spencer immediately gave notice to the police with regard to the matter, and they set about. to ascertain the ciroutnatances under which the assault had oocurred. These circumstances will, no doubt, come out in evidence; so that; it is not desirable to give them in detail hero. We may say that we learn the assault took at a house in the Shakespeare-road on *j"Yv evening; that Cawley was Struck on the neW^k a p O i< er geV eral timei ; that he :was after*^ bht . homo fe one q{ individuals w^« reMnb thfl aßSaulfc
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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 552, 17 October 1871, Page 2
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186THE MURDEROUS ASSAULT AT NAPIER. Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 552, 17 October 1871, Page 2
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