MAN STABBED

Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1929, Page 2

MAN STABBED

DIES ON WAY TO HOSPITAL. AUCKLAND, August 2. Stabbed in the groin with a knife, .Thomas Levy, aged 40, a labourer, (was fatally injured at the door of his house in Nelson street shortly before 17 o’clock to-night. -One man has been brrested in connexion with the affair find charged with murder. His name is George Caffrey, a quarter-caste negro. \ - . ' ■> Levy lived with two others—David Carmody. and George Frederick Cole •—in a house set slightly back from {the street. Together with another man—James Gallott—the three returned to the house early in the evening and spent some time there drinking in one of the front rooms. Shortly before 7 o’clock a knock was heard at the front door of the house, and Levy left the room to answer it. The other three heard him in conversation with someone and a scuffle followed. Hearing a cay “I have been stabbed,” they rushed to the door, finding Levy lying oii' the doorstep with blood streaming from a . wound ,in the right groin. There was then no sign of anyone in. the vicinity. The men carried the wbunded man into the house, placing him upon a bed in the room, they had just vacated. Efforts to stem the flow of blood were made, one of the men tearing up a shirt and applying it as a rough tourniquet. However,' their efforts were'of little use," blood’continuing to flow, freelyi

Gallett was sent to obtain a doctor and for this purpose he entered a nearby store to ring one up. The St. John Ambulance Brigade was summoned by the owner of the store. An ambulance officer found the injured man lying on a bed, which was devoid of bedding or mattress. He was supported by one of the other men, who was holding his head up and keeping the tourniquet in place. It was impossible to movc| Levy in the condition he was in .and the ambulance man applied another and more efficient tourniquet. The man was then in a very low condition .and his death occurred on the way to the Hospital.