FATALLY STABBED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 3 August 1929, Page 7

FATALLY STABBED

MURDER IN AUCKLAND MAN BLEEDS TO DEATH AN ARREST EFFECTED (By Telegraph—Press Association) AUCKLAND, This Day. Stabbed in the groin with a knife, Thomas Levy, aged 40 years, a labourer, was fatally injured at the door of his house in Nelson street, shortly before 7 o’clock last night. One man was arrested and charged with murder. His name is George Caffery, a quarter-caste negro. The man lived with two others, David Carmody and George Frederick Cole, in a house of four rooms, set slightly back from the street. Together with another man, James Gallott, the three returned to thej house early in the evening and spent some time there drinking in one of the front rooms. Shortly before 7 o’clock a knock was heard at the front door and Levy left to answer it. The other three heard him in conversation with eomeone and a scuffle followed.

Hearing the cry, “I have been stabbed,” they rushed to the door, finding Levy lying on the doorstep with blood streaming from a wound in tlic right groin. There was then no sign of anyone in the vicinity. The men carried the wounded man

into the house. Efforts to stem the flow ‘ of blood were made, one tearing up his shirt and:applying it as a rough tourniquet. Their efforts were of little use, tn© blood l continuing to flow freely. The St. John ambulance brigade was summoned, and found the injured man lying oil a bed, which was devoid of bedding or mattress. He was supported ' by ; one of the other men, who was ' holding his head up and keeping the . tourniquet in place. It was impossible to move Levy in the condition he was in, and another and a more efficient tourniquet was applied. The man was then in a very low condition, and his death occurred on the way Jto the Hospital.