A MAN WOUNDED.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1493, 16 July 1912, Page 9

A MAN WOUNDED.

WOMAN CHARGED WITH STABBING. ' COMMITTED I'Olt TKIAL. (Br TtlograpU.—Pram Association.! Auckland, July 15. On the charge that on the evening of Saturday a week bark ?he had stabbed Jilm Ink.-ter (a fisherman) with a knife, Annie Monalian, married woman, oi about. :!7 years, appealed at the I'olicc Court this- morning. tjhe pleaded not guilty. Sub-Inspector .Hendry staled that an altercation nro=p in a iiou.-e in Alexandra Street, between Inkster and Monanan (accused's husband) about the rooms in tho house. The altercation ended iiv a suil'lc between the two, in which they both came to the door. It' was alleged that thou.,Mrs. Mouahan went and stabbed Inkster •in the back of the thigh, and ho went out of the house, and made a complaint, Which resulted in his being taken to Uib police station, and then to the hospital. Next day accused was arrested after inquiries had been made, and she suggested that Inkster had come, by the wound as the result of falling on broken glass in the room. Dr. Abbot, who had attends! Inkster at the hospital, stated that che wound was a clean cut on the outer luck portion of the thigh, d little above the knee, about an inch long and an inch and a half deep, apparently inflicted by a pointed, and possibly sharp, instrument. There were no indications of Tho man would be three weeks yet in tho hospital. The wound was sucli as might have been caused by someone striking down with ' a pointed' instrument while Inkster was on tho ground, as had been stated. ■ Accused: More likely he did it with ono of his dwn knives he was trying to get into my. husband. John. Inkster, who had to carried into court, naid he resided usually in No. 93 Alexandra Street,.which lio shared with Mr. and Mrs. Poltrich. He hid the two upper rooms. The Poltrichs came on Friday of last week to stop, in the house. M.t. anil Mrs. Mojiiihan went -uto the .house also on Friday, and (hey complained alimit witness having too. nnieh of the house. On Saturday evening witness went into Poltrich's part of the ■licnse, a front bedroom downstairs. Tliera. .w«ro present also" Mrs. Poltrich, Mrs. .Monalian, and Monalian, nnd the trouble started over the (rooms. Monalian caught hold of witness, and they had a struggle, in wliicli both of them came to the ilocr. Witness was on top, and Mrs. Monalian went beliiml theni, stabbed witness in the leg with some weapon, and then ran and ji.mped into bed. Witness.got .up, saying "I'm stabbed," and went out into the street, where he met a man, "w!,o took him to the police station. At,the time he was slabbed it was not possible for Monalian or anyone else in the room bur accused' to have stabbed him. lie nnd Monalian did not roll over after :)iP,v feli to the floor, and there was no .broken glass on the floor at the time. To accused: You stabbed ir.p, nnd then jumped into bed. I didn't have a knife in my belt. I never carried one in my life. "You .had a knife in your hand, and did it vnur'self." ' ' ' ' "So."- • "And you picked it up and :on out of the door." "No." "It's a lie; you did." Sergeant Murray .and Constable • Blake pave evidence as to Inkster's condition when ho reached the police station. They also, stated'that when they \isited ,th-3 house in' Alexandra Street they found blcadstiius in the room referred to by Inkster,' but. could find no pointed knife or instrument such as might have tamed the wound, neither was there any broken glass in tlie room. Inkster himself had no knife when.ho was taken to the police station. ■,/"•..■ ■ ■ • This was the case fcr the prosecution. Accused, who was not represented by counsel, pleaded npt guilty, and reserved h?r defence. She was committed to the Supreme Court for trial, bail being allowed in two sureties of „£SO each.