THE HUSBAND RETURNED.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2315, 13 August 1921, Page 3

THE HUSBAND RETURNED.

VISITOR SERIOUSLY ASSAULTED.

A WANGANUI AFFAIR

An anonymous letter was the cause of an exciting incident in Wilson Street, Wanganui, early the other morning. The recipient of the letter was B. Spiro, a Greek by nationality, well known in Wanganui, where he formerly ran a fish business. He was a passenger by the mail train from Wellington on Sunday night, and, coming on by motor ear, he arrived at Wanganui about 2.30 a.in.

Apparently Spiro’s suspicions were well grounded, for on reaching bis home in Wilson Street he found that his wife had company, thd visitor being a married man, Leonard Reginald Gray, who, it is said, is living apart from his wife. The next phase of the matter was apparently Gray’s attempted hurried departure, but through bumping his head on. a door he was placed practically hors de combat, and he proved no match for the irate husband, who proceeded to chastise the erring Lothario with a vigour that threatened most serious consequences.

At this stage, alarmed neighbours who had been disturbed by cries, summoned the police by telephone, and Constables Annabell and Hedgman arrived in time to rescue Grey in a bruised and battered stale, and to arrest Spiro.

It was found that Grey was in such a serious condition that his immediate removal to the. district hospital was a matter of necessity. There he is now making reasonable headway.

Spiro was charged at the Magistrate’s Court with causing actual bodily harm, arid remanded for a week on £2OO bail.

His counsel, Mr 1.. Cohen, in mentioning a few of (he circumstances, said that the accused had acted under the greatest provocation.