ATTEMPTED MURDER ALLEGED.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2984, 9 January 1926, Page 3

ATTEMPTED MURDER ALLEGED.

GIRL IN SERIOUS CONDITION,

CHARGE AGAINST A YOUTH

Hamilton, January .8,

Last night the Hamilton police received a telephone message from Ngaruawahia to the effect that a young woman, Muriel Tetzlaff, aged 19, was lying in a critical condition in a house in the township.

Detective-Sergeant Sweeney and Detective Culloty paid a visit to a boardinghouse, where they interviewed Roy Charles Dorn, aged 19 years, and as a result of the interview Dorn was taken to Ngaruawhia, where, at eleven o’clock last night the Court was opened and Dorn was charged with attempting to murder the girl. In the presence of two Justices, accused, and the detectives, the girl’s depositions were taken by the Registrar of the Court at Hamilton, at the house where she lay.

In a very lengthy statement the girl said she and Dorn had been keeping company for the past 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, and plans for the future. They arranged that they should be married to-morrow, but owing to something he soid she gathered that he did not love her. -He asked her to call the following evening, and this she did, when he gave her certain things. He then shook hands with her and thanked her for what she was gobm to do for him. She later went to Ngaruawahia, where yesterday afternoon she took what he had given her. She became violently ill, and a doctor was called in. As the result of her serious condition he commuincated with the police. Accused was remanded to appear at Hamilton on January 13. Bail was refused.