FIGHTING A GHOST.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1094, 3 October 1883, Page 2

FIGHTING A GHOST.

The Maldon correspondent of (he Melbourne Argus gives the following particulars of an assault on a fcmalo who was mistaken for a ghost :—“ A few night’s ago Mrs Miller was returning home, and, whilst waiting for a friend at, a street corner, was passed by a young man, who, after going past her a few yards, returned, knocked her down, and struck her, giving her two black eyes and inflicting other injuries. Before leaving, he told her he thought he had given her enough. On reaching home she informed her friends who at once communicated with the police, but, as she could not give any description of the person who assaulted her, the matter remained a mystery. Reports had for some time past been current that ghosts have been seen in the neighbourhood of the place whore (he assault took place, and the following morning a young man who

delivers milk in (he neighbourhood 'ipponn d as usual, but wiih a bandaged and helpless hand, and informed his customers that he had been fighting with ibj ghost. Tiiis morning, on hearing that Mrs Miller’s case was in tin hands of the police, he ,at once pai 1 a visit to the sufferer, and on finding that she was really thij ghost lie had attacked, he offered a most abject apology. It is not known whether this has been accepted.”