ATTEMPTED MURDER.
A. Man stabs hig wile in
tlxe neck,
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
WELLINGTON, This day.
An attempted murder took place at Carterton last night. A man named Alexander Anderson, formerly cook for Mr Carr, the road contractor, had been drinking all day with his wife, and while going along Morton Road about 7.15 p.m. he struck her and stabbed her in the neck m two places. Dr Smith attended the woman. The wound is not necessarily fatal, but is of a serious character. A man named Edwards, a farmer, saw the deed, but was too frightened to interfere. The woman has been removed to Greytown Hospital. Anderson went home artd sold everything. He then took his son and cleared, but was cleverly arrested by Constable Darby at 2 a.m. The officer wept in a trap, and tracked the footmarks about ten miles to Ray’s Hotel, where the man was arrested. The man is very impudent, and denies all knowledge of the affair. A constable has been sent to Greytown to get the woman’s deposition.
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Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1125, 14 December 1883, Page 2
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175ATTEMPTED MURDER. Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1125, 14 December 1883, Page 2
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