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NZ Truth, Issue 1173, 24 May 1928, Page 7

HEAVY: GOING Woman Charged With • Assaultirig^Man (From - "N.Z. Truth's" Dunedin Rep.> Withvone ear very, nearly severed, and, with an ugly wound on the side of his head, Charles Wilfred Waldren; until recently a wellkriowfti laxi proprietor. "m Dunedin, was admitted to the city hospital at 4.25 a.m. on Friday last week. LATfiR m the day, a young married woman appeared at the Police Court to answer a charge of assaulting Waldren so as to cause him actual bodily harm. At 4 a.m. she had walked into the North Dunedin police station and reported that she had attacked Waldren, with whom she was living, with an axe. ' > Bearing evidence of a heavy night m the form of an extensive black eye, the woman appeared before Magistrate Bartholomew. Sub- Inspector Fahey, m applying for a remand until Friday, May 25, stated that the victim of the assault was m the Dunedin. Hospital m a dangerous condition and- was then still unconscious. The sub -inspector opposed Lawyer White's application for iba.il, stating that the accused was separated from her husband and had been living with Waldren who w,as also living apart from his wife. The magistrate granted the remand and declined to give baill ' The woman's name was suppressed pending the facts of the case being gone into. :. It is alleged that an : argument on the previous evening terminated m a melee m which the woman's eye was