SERIOUS ASSAULT CHARGE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3804, 12 June 1928, Page 4

SERIOUS ASSAULT CHARGE.

WOMAN COMMITTED FOB TRIAL. Dunedin, June 9. Elsie Clara Babich, in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday afternoon, was committed for trial on a charge of assaulting Charles Wilfred Waldron so as to cause him actual bodily harm. The complainant, who was found on his bed with wounds on his head and his ear nearly severed by an axe, stated that he was a married man separated from his wife, and had lived three years with accused. He awoke early in. the morning of March 18 to find himself covered with blood. He called for assistance from his brother-in-law in the same house. He denied that he had ever threatened to kill accused, but admitted blackening her eye on May 16. He had not attempted to take accused’s purse from hex’, nor had he assaulted her before he received his injuries.

The evidence of the police witnesses was that accused went to the station stating that she did hit Waldron with a tomahawk. Later, in Wialdren’s room, she said to him: “I wish I had killed you.”