DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 62, 15 March 1913, Page 6

DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

TWO ALLEGED ASSAULTS. (I*oi Press Association.) Auckland, March 15. A young man named William James Webb was returning home to Grey Lynn at 11,30 last night when he was assaulted by two men, one of whom, he alleged, attempted to stab him, and was prevented by a passer-by, who wrenched the knife away. Constable Smith rescued Webb after a struggle with his assailants, who escaped. Webb was roughly handled and considerably bruised. Leo de Ernest, the driver of a taxicab, was found on the road in the suburbs with severe cuts on his head and face, and was removed to the hospital. He states that he drove two young men out of the town. He remembers driving the car to the street

iu which he was found, but knew nothing more until a lamplighter was bending over him. He had then been unconscious over an hour. An empty ear was found on the roadside. it

contained two broken bottles and wa stained with blood.

ALLEGED BIGAMY. Auckland, March 15. / At the Police Court, Harry Ford, an hotel porter, residing at Hamilton,' was charged tnat at Auckland in August last he committed bigamy by going through a form of marriage with Kathleen Kelly, being already married. Evidence was given to the effect that accused was married at St. Paul s Church. Canterbury, on February 12th, 1908, to Beatrice Newton, who. was present in Court. Subsequently, he went to Newcastle and returned eight months later. When a child was born lie again left New Zealand. He had written to his wife and had sent her money, but she did not see him again till February last in Hamilton. Accused, in a statement produced by the police, did not deny the allegations, but stated that there were peculiar circumstances connected with his first marriage. He reserved his detente, and was committed for trial, bail being allowed, accused in £2OO and two sureties of £IOO each.

GROCER’S FATAL DIUVI

Wellington, March 15

At the inquest on Percy Joseph Calcinai, who died from injuries received in a trap accident on the 7th instant, evidence was given that the deceased was driving a grocer’s cart round a corner, when the vehicle struck the kerbing, or a fire plug, and overturned. Calcinai being pinned underneath. Death was due to a fracture of the skull and laceration of the brain. AN OLD MAN’S DEATH. Ashburton, March 15. The body-' of William Barry, 87 years of age, who- wandered from the Old Men’s Home on Monday, was found in the Wakanui Creek to-day.