RAZOR SLASHER

Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1932, Page 5

RAZOR SLASHER

ECHO TO WELLINGTON CASE.

COMMITTED TO SUPREME COURT.

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WELLINGTON, May 25

A blood-stained razor, and a grey cap, badiy slashed and covered with blood, were the principal . exhibits in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, when Jd’m Richard Anderson, alias James Pope, 25, a labourer, ‘ appeared before Mr Page, S.M., and was, subsequently committed to the Supreme Court for trial, on a charge of wounding Ctyen Mulholland and Cornelius Park-.At . the City Hotel on. May 7th, with intent: to do grievous bodily harm.' -- • In evidence; Detective Murray said that accused made a statement, in the course of which he. said; that .Mulho-1-lnnd picked an argument with'him in the hotel. Later on, a big fire<ian waited for Mulholland outside the bar. The accused could n°t remember what happened from then. He Ss if : srMty Uadutempered sort of fellow. He could not remember using a razor, and he did not know what happened. He realised the seriousness of what he had done, and vw sorry for it. He had been drinking heavily from the Wednesday to the •Saturday nigsht and at the time of the happening he was driin . _ sure he would not have used tile raz.» on another man if he had been' ■ right senses. He was quite sat-li-d that he a’one used the. razor.