AXE SETTLES ARGUMENT.
MAN’S EAR CUT OFF. WOMAN CHARGED WITH ASSAULT. Dunedin, May 18. At four o’clock this morning a woman, aged 28, walked into the North Dunedin Police Station and reported that she had attacked a man with an axe. The police went to the house at 162 King Street and there found Charles Wilfred Waldron, a married man, aged 33, sitting on a l)ed with his head badly injured. The bed was covered with blood and Waldron’s injuries were being tended by a relative. The man was removed to hospital with one ear cut off and other severe head injuries. An argument is reported to have caused the assault. The woman was charged in the Police Court this morning with assaulting Waldren so as to cause actual bodily harm. Her left eye was blackened. : A week’s remand was granted and her name suppressed in the meantime. Bail was refused ais the police stated that the man was lying in hospital unconscious. Accused is a married woman separated from her husband and has been living with Waldren.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3794, 19 May 1928, Page 3
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178AXE SETTLES ARGUMENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3794, 19 May 1928, Page 3
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