ATTEMPTED MURDER.
[By Telegraph—Press Association]. Christchurch, last night. A charge against William John Wilding of attempting to murder his wife by cutting her throat with a razor was gone into at the Supreme Court to-day. The evidence showed that on February 4th last Wilding, under the • influence of drink, went home. A quarrel followed, and the prosecution allege that he attacked his wife with a razor, afterwards cutting his own throat. Tho defence was that Mrs-Wilding inflicted the injuries on herself in attempting to snatch the razor out of her husband’s hands. The jury retired at 1.15 p.m., and at 2.80 returned with a verdict of guilty of assault. Prisoner was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, having been in confinement since February.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 112, 21 May 1901, Page 3
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