Murderous Assault by a Wife
• <►■ : (PEB CNITBD PRKBS ASSOCIATION.) Thames, August 20. William Davis, a milkman at Mount I Pleasant, was murderously assaulted . by his wife on Saturday night. It ; appears that quarrels have been fre- . quent between them for some time past. On Saturday night Davis re- . turned home under the influence of drink, and while undressing, he commenced to quarrel with his wife, and subsequently (as she alleges) took up a large butcher's knife and threatened to cut her throat. At this time Mrs Davis was in bed, and fearing he would carry out his threat, she caught up a tomahawk that was on the window sill arid struck her husband several times, inflicting no fewer than seventeen wounds on his head, which is terribly mutilated. He now lies in the hospital, but there is little hope of his n-'ouvery. Mrs Davis was arrested by tha police, and brought before th« Oourt 1 . to-day on a charge of attempted Tuurder, but waa remanded for eight days.
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 30, 21 August 1888, Page 2
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