HUSBAND’S UNEXPECTED RETURN.

Shannon News, 12 August 1921, Page 4

HUSBAND’S UNEXPECTED RETURN.

A WANGANUI INCIDENT. An anonymous letter was the ,■ cause oi an exciting incident in Wii-! son street early on Monday morning. J The recipient of the letter was B. j Spiro, a Greek by nationality, well known in Wanganui, where he merly ran a fish business. He was a passenger by the mail train from Wellington on Sunday night, and coming on by motor car he arrived in Wanganui about 2.30 a.m. Apparently Spiro’s suspicions were well grounded, for on reaching his home in Wilson Street, he found that his wife had company, the Visi- ( tor being a married man, Leonard Reginald Gray, who, it is saidt,; 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 v-igour that threatened most serious consequences. j At this stage * alarmed neighbours j who had been disturbed by cries, summoned the police by telephone, and Constables Annabel andNHedgman arrived in time to .rescue Gray in a bruised and battered state and to arrest Spiro. It was found that Gray was. in suchj a serious condition that his immediate removal to the District j Hospital was a matter of necessity. J There he is now making reasonable,. t headway. / { Spiro was charged at ,the Magis- j trate’s Court yesterday morning with! causing actual bodily harm, and re- \ manded for a week on £2OO bail. j His counsel, Mr L. Cohen, in mentioning a few of the circumstances, j said that the accused had acted under the greatest provocation—Wanganui | Chronicle. j