RAZOR SLASHING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 74, 20 December 1937, Page 7

RAZOR SLASHING

■Press Association.)

Youth Attacked in Street at Auckland ASSAILANT ESCAPES

(By Telegraph—

AUCKLAND, This Day. The first razor-slashing case within the memnry of the Auckland police occurred in the busiest part of Queen street, about 10.30 on Saturday night, when Cc.lin Richard Honey, aged 17, residing at Auckland, was gashed with a razor on the face by one of two men. who followed him out of a picture show. The assailant and his companion escaped. According to the story told by Honey, he and his cousin, Vietor Stedman, were at a picture show. As they wero about to leave before the entertainment ended, cne of the two men who had been sitting behind pushed him, and, on following them outside, suggested they should go to a back street and "fight it out." Honey said there was nothing to fight about, and, while he and cousin wer standing talking, one of the two men drew his hand out of his trousers pocket, and, with a white-handled blade razor, slashed the left side of his face, inflicting a wound running from level with tho lobe of the ear to the side of the month. The two men disappeared through Queen's Arcade, presumably running into Customs street. Honey said that as he and his cousin could not find a eonstable, thejr went to a St. John Ambulance station, where he had the wound dressed and then went home. When seen to-day, Honey who. is an apprentice at a implement works, had returned to work. The police are searehing for the assailant.