THE WIFE-STABBING CASE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 21, 22 December 1883, Page 2

THE WIFE-STABBING CASE.

. Alexander Anderson, the man whoat- [ tempted to murder tits' wife" "at "Carter ( ton -last \yeek, has "been brought down ! to : 'Wellington, Mr Wardell, ll.B£. } haviug committed Mm for trial at Ihe next aitting'of ; tW Supreme Court, "^e (Post) aiVinfornjed that the* injured Woiilan is progressing rapidly towards recovery. The evidence given by one of th& witnesses exaniincd at the nigisterial enquiry was qfa~ratb.er ; extraordinary nature. The -witness, a ujan named JPetets, deposed that on the evening of the 12th instuntihe saw the accused m Carterton, m company with a woman and child. TJtte prisoner struck th«) woman twicerr-once m the side and once m the face — and pulled something off her. The woman thenran across the road and asked permission to sit down m witness' shop. Witness consented, and the woman sat down. The, prisoner followed her and accused her of adultery Jcalling h,er a foul name. Witness ,asjied him whethep he was mad or a fool, and the prisoner said to the woman, "We have three miles to go y I will kill yoi before you get that distance. 5 ' Witness told him not to do it before the public, as there were qther" ways of doing if. The ac^ cusedt^en picked up a lcnifo from the cquriter T but returned it on being told fljat he fcould nqt have it. He then [qok'*a sin.q.ll Hftifp froijyhis'pbbljlet and sharpened it on th,e eyelet punch,. Th,e wpiiian then left" Ch.e shop, and prisoner tqk| t h,iin tljatbe would fcijl he> before he gpt.over the jonrnoy. Th!e woman was intQ^ipatcd, but could, walk ■traight. „; -