SERIOUS STABBING CASE IN WELLINGTON.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1632, 14 May 1879, Page 3

SERIOUS STABBING CASE IN WELLINGTON.

[Stress Special Wire.] WELLINGTON, May 13. The case in which an Italian fisherman was severely cut in the abdomen with a razor came before the Magistrate to-day, and the following evidence was given by the wounded man as to how ho had received his injuries. After having a quarrel and a fight about some fish, witness went towards town, and when he wan passing t hrough the Basin reserve ho met prisoner and Perot.fi. Prisoner had a razor in one hand, and a knife in the other, and both men made a rush at him. Prisoner made some stabs at him with the razor and the knife. There were several gashes in his jacket. The other man was all this time beating witness with stones. Prisoner gave him a stab in tbe back of the neck. Witness tried to get away, and as he was running off prisoner gave him a gash across the stomach with the razor. Witness then managed to escape from them, and after he had yot outside the Basin reserve he fell down and had to be there for about an hour, be being very weak from the loss of blood. He then went to the house of a woman who gave him some tea and some water to wash himself. Afterwards ho reported the matter to the police. Ttiey sent him to the hospital. Dr. Tripe deposed that when prosecutor came to bis Louse his clothes were saturated with blood. There were wounds on the abdomen which were still bleeding profusely. There was a deep wound, two inches long, and a shallower one, three inches long. Both had been produced by a sharp instrument. The cuts in the clothes corresponded with the wounds. The wounds wore very dangerous. Witness stayed the bleeding, and sent prosecutor to the hospital. Witness bad seen the wounds lately. The deepest of them was still open. The wounds might weaken the wills of tho abdomen. The other cases arising out of this one wore further adjourned.