MADMAN WITH A RAZOR
SAVAGE ATTACK ON A CONSTABLE. Press Association. INVERCARGILL, January 24. Some, consternation was caused at Winton this morning when a lunatic attacked and severely injured Constable McQuarrio. Tho assailant is a labourer, and lived with a mate in a hut near Winton. For some timo ho had been behaving in a peculiar manner, and last Tuesday he secured a double-barrelled gun and with it blow tho side of tho hut out. He then left his mate and this morning got on a train and proceeded to Winton. Constable McQuarrio, who had been informed of his peculiar behaviour, wont to the Winton station and arrested tho man. When he got him into the passage at the police cells tho man took out a razor and violently drew it across tho constable’s arm, cutting tho coat and penetrating tho bicepa, but the blade fortunately missed tho main artery. Two men who happened to be near by came to the constable’s assistance. Tho constable, who is suffering from shock and less of blood, is not in any great danger, and serious consequences are not apprehended. His assailant was later committed to tho mental hospital.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8338, 25 January 1913, Page 5
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195MADMAN WITH A RAZOR New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8338, 25 January 1913, Page 5
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