MAN STABBED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 194, 2 September 1937, Page 9

MAN STABBED

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Maori Woman Charged with Offence JEALOUSY ALLEGED

iBy Telegraplv

WANGANUI, Last Night. The sequel to a stabbing affair -in which a scttler of Jerusalem, Albcrt Edward Davey, was injured with a knife on J'uly 28 was lieard in thc Wanganui Hospital this morniug bcfore Justices when Kathleen Waitoa, a Maori, pleaded not guilty to a chargo of eausing actual bodily harm. Who was committed for trial. Dav.ey's evidence diwclosed that Waitoa came as a housekeeper but that they had started living togethor, he being separated from his wifc. The accused, he said, became very attached to liim after he had nursed hcr through' a sickness. 3he became very ,-jealous of him. They had frequent quarrels and. she displayed uncontrollable tcmper and in quarrels somei:itues as^aulred him. Ile tried to persuadc- her to l'-fiib, lxit she refused. 'n the nl^lit of .Julv 27, wilnces aihleo, his son came to staj-. He tohi his son to O'Ceupy his niotlier's room. Monticn of the mother's namo rouscd the ire of the accused. Eaily next morning, when he went out to got woj-J, sho followed and attucked liim wiili a piece cf manuka. She strucK him behind the eur. Later, in the kitclien, she liit him witk a fire shovel and broom and bit him on an arm. He smacked licr across the faee with his ojjen hand. She grabbed one of two butchers' knives. Jic endeavoured to take this from hcr. Wkilc she was on hcr knees she swung rouud and stuek the knife into his cliest. Dr. Widdowson, medical superintendent of the hospitai, said that th;e wound was from to two inches dcep. Davey 's chances of recovery wcre now quite good.