VIOLENT LUNATIC.
GUN AND RAZOR.
ATTACK ON A CONSTABLE.
(By Tdegraph.—Presi Isioclation.) Inyercarfllll, January 24. Somo consternation.occurred at Winton' this morning, when a lunatic attackdd and soverely injured Constable M'Quarrio. Tho assailant is a'labourer, who lives with a mate in a hut lienr Winton. For some time past 116 had 'been behaving in a peculiar, manner, and ' last .Tuesday had. secured a double-barrelled gun, and with it blew tho tide of tho hut out. Ho then left his mate, and this morning got on a train and proceeded to Winton. Constable M'Quarrie, whd had been informed of his peouliar behaviour, went to Wintoii station and. arrested tho man. When ho got him : into'tho i passage of the oell tho nl'an took out a' razor and violently drew it across iho constable's arm, cutting- tho coat and penetrating tho biceps j the blade fortunately missed the main artery. / Two men, who happened' to be near by, oame to tho constable's asslstanco. Tho constable,,'who is Buffering ' from shock and loss of blood, is not in any great danger, and serious consequences are not apprehended.'''' . v ■ His assailant was committod fa a mental hospital.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1657, 25 January 1913, Page 6
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191VIOLENT LUNATIC. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1657, 25 January 1913, Page 6
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