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ALLEGED STABBING.

PALMERSTON N., January 27. William Waugh, a well-known settler, was charged on remand to-day with having; wounded Constable Connor on December 14 with intent to do grievous bodily harm. The constable said he warned accused! twice to go home, as he had been drinking. He then decided to arrest him, when accused, according to the constable, drovet an open knife, which he had in his hand, straight into witness's abdomen. Medical evidence showea that the wound was two and a-balf inches in length and penetrated the whole thickness of the abdominal walL It was serious, and the doctors could not tell for 24 hours after Connor's admissioa to the Hospital whether he would live.

Accused was committed for -trial.

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Otago Witness, Issue 2812, 5 February 1908, Page 30

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ALLEGED STABBING. Otago Witness, Issue 2812, 5 February 1908, Page 30

ALLEGED STABBING. Otago Witness, Issue 2812, 5 February 1908, Page 30

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