A SHOCKING AFFAIR.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1926, Page 2

A SHOCKING AFFAIR.

YOUTH’S CALLOUS ACTIONS. GIR-L’S DEPOSITIONS TAKEN. [DT TELEGHAril —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] HAMILTON, Jan. 8. Last night the Hamilton Police received a telephone message from Ngaruawhaia that a young women, Aluriel Tetzlaff, aged 19, was lying in a critical condition at a house in the township. From subsequent information, Detect ive-Sergt. AYeeney and Detective Culloty paid a visit- to it lioardiiighouse (where they ’interviewed Roy Charles Dorn, aged 19, with the result that Dorn was taken to Ngarua-wa-hia. where, at eleven last- night, the Court was opened and Dorn charged with attempting to murder the girl. In the presence of two justices, the accused ami detectives, the girl’s depositions were taken by the Registrar of the Court at Hamilton at the house where the girl lay.

In a statement, which was very lengthy, the sick girl said that she and Dorn had been keeping company for the last two years and in consequence of a certain condition she visited him at Hamilton on Wednesday night where they had a long conversation relative to her condition.

Flans for the future were arranged, and they were to he married to-mor-row, hut owing to something he said she gathered that he did not love her. He asked her to call the following evening. This she did. when he gave her a small bottle of ammonia and some small thin .sticks of a substance to lie taken with the liquid. Ho then dmok hands and thanked her for what she was going to do for him. The girl later went to Nganiawalfia where, yesterday afternoon, she took the liquid and the small sticks. She became violently ill, and a doctor was called in. with the result that her serious condition was communicated to the police. The accused was remanded to appear at Hamilton on the 13th. January. hail being refused.