THE HUSBAND RETURNED.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1921, Page 7

THE HUSBAND RETURNED.

VISITOR SERIOUSLY ASSAULTED. A WANGANUI AFFAIR. An anonymous letter was the cans? 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-car ho arrived I at 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 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 vigor that threatened most serious consequences. At this stage alarmed neighbors who had been disturbed by cries, summoned the police by telephone, and Constables Annabell and Hedgmaji arrived in time to rescue Gray in a bruised and battered state and to arrest Spiro. It was found that Gray 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, and remanded for a week on £l2OO bail. His counsel, Mr. L. Cohen, in mentioning a few of the circumstances said that the accused had acted under the greatest provocation.