AUCKLAND TRAGEDY
COLOURED MAN ARRESTED. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 2. Thomas Levy, aged fortv. was fatally injured as the result of being stabbed with a knife in Ihe groin at the door of his house in Nelson Street to-night. The police have arrested George Gaffery, quarter-cast negro, or. a charge of murder. The dead man lived with David Carmody and George Frederick Cole. With another man, James Gallott. they returned to the house early in the evening, and had some liquoi. There came a knock at the door, and Levy went to answer it. His companions heard a scuffle and cry and rushing to the door found Levy lying on the doorstep with a wound in the right groin. They carried him inside, and he died on the way to the hospital in the ambulance.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1929, Page 5
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137AUCKLAND TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1929, Page 5
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