MADMAN WITH A RAZOR.
ATTACKS A CONSTABLE
INVERCARGILL, JaU. 24
Some consternation was caused at Winton this morning when a lunatic attacked and severely injured Constable McQuarrie. The assailant is a labourer, and lived with a mate in a hut near Winton. For some time he had been behaving in a peculiar manner, and last Tuesday he secured a doublebarrelled gun and with it blew the side of the hut out. He then left his mate, and this morning got on a train and proceeded to Winton. Constable McQuarrie. who had been informed ot his peculiar behaviour, went to the Winton station and arres'c.l the man. When he got him into the passage at the police cells, the man took out a razor and violently drew it across the constable’s arm, cutting the coat and penetrating the biceps, but the blade fortunately missed the main artery. Two men who happened to be near by came to the constable’s assistance.
The constable, who is suffering from shock and loss of blood, is not in any great danger, and set ions consequences are not apprehended.
His assailant was later committed to the mental hospital.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1055, 25 January 1913, Page 3
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192MADMAN WITH A RAZOR. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1055, 25 January 1913, Page 3
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