SAVAGE ASSAULT.
(Per Press Association.) Blenheim, last night. A man named Patrick O’Drisooll was taken to the hospital late last night with a severe wound in the head and a fractured skull, supposed to bo the result of an assault, committed in Grove road, near the centre of the town, A young man named Joseph Hobon Byrne was arrested to-day, and charged with assaulting O’Driscoll j with intent to rob. A remand was granted for eight days, pending the recovery or otherwise of the injured man. O’Briseoil bad been drinking, a charge of drunkenness being made against him before the mote serious case was called on, and a I conviotion being recorded, '
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1551, 6 September 1905, Page 2
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