INVERCARGILL.
November 20
A stabbing affair occurred during Saturday night on the North road, near Waikiwi Creek. Tbe injured man, Maurice Gorman, says he was taking J. M. Gilchrist home to his residence, both being natives of the same locality in Ireland. Near the creek Gilchrist said Gorman was deceiving him, and lay down and would go no further. Gorman went and filled his hat with water, and threw it over Gilchrist on the assumption that he was drunk. Gilchrist then stabbed him, saying he would remerrber him as long as he lived. He then left the wounded man, who made his way to Mr Bain's house. The police were apprised of the affair, and Gorman was brought to the hospital. The wound is not essentially dangerous, except from afterconsequences. Gilchrist was arrested yesterday at the Junction Hotel. Ilia version is that Gorman and others attempted to rob him, and in support of this shows a knife-cut through his coat, vest, and guernsey. He is a constable, lately from the Lake districts, and was sent here to do clerical work, but has been on the sick list since his arrival, and in the hospital. Both men had been drinking together, and had a bottle of whisky with them.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3546, 20 November 1882, Page 3
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