GARROTTED IN MELBOURNE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3146, 25 March 1909, Page 3

GARROTTED IN MELBOURNE.

REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE. As Constable Hunt was walking along Exhibition Street, Melbourne, early on Sunday morning, March 14th, he heard cries of "murder" from a dark entrance in Little Lonsdale Street. Oh reaching the spot he saw three struggling men, one of whom jumped to his feet as the con stable came upon them. The other was so busy choking the man beneath him that he had to be taken off his victim. While Hunt \va3 thus engaged, the other man attacked him savagely, *• and he was forced to let the garrotter go. On the approach of Constable Day the men ran in different directions, and they were promptly pursued by the police. Day's quarry escaped, but Hunt kept his man in sigh* - . As he was losing ground, Hunt drew his revolver and fired three shots, the last of which struck the fugitive in the back. The wounded man wag taken to the Melbourne Hospital, where he wiu admitted. He gave his name as Patrick Joyce, aged 27 years. The shot passed right through the upper part of his abdomen, on the right side, and internal hemorrhage was profuse. An operation was performed and what was described as one of the most remarkable coincidences of the operating surgeon's experience was niscovered. Eight in ths; track of the bullet was a hydatid cyst attached to the liver of the wounded man. It had been, of coursv., nr.iken. He is in a critical condition. ,