TRAGIC CASE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 661, 13 October 1933, Page 4

TRAGIC CASE

(Press Assn.-

■ WjzUL OLD HUSBAND CHAKtBi WITH ATIACKINGB HIS WIFE K ATTEMPTED SUICIDB

— By Telegraph— C;;jp4

Auckland, TB1 "John Shaw Gordon (68), Ba layer, was ch'arged in tcBg Court to-day that early on tlBo ing of August 30 he did actiiB" harm to his wife, Nellie' 6oB was also charged with attemBL cide. Bqi Evidence was given by iB-f that he was called by accmB and found the woman lyinrBj in blood from head woundiB( side of her head seemed 'slir||| [ ed .In another room accuseiBro ing on a bed bleeding freeljBa' throat wound. Witness ashfl 1 the instrument was with. waccnsed had injured his vBo accused replied, "It is in tflxgarden." Witness found Bb stained hammer. B)n Maurice John Gordon, a sB/ lived in a "bach" at the baclB house, said his parents hadB93 the best of terms except ifl father h'ad drink. About 5JiB morning his mother called ifl the house. He found his faflB ing up in bed bleeding froratB His mother told him to get 3*01 She did not say what had hB but he noticed th'at her leB matted with blood. MA constable who was calledH house said that he asked accasB caused his injuries. Accnsed B "I did it myself, and maiie a re it." B A detective who saw accnseB p, hospital said that accusedBnjf, asked( how his wife was injByid' plied, "Well, there she isani^Rjei I. It does not take much toBrid who inflicted them (the injuiB «j I have got to say is that riBan I did not make a better job cBg, 3 iget myself off the face of I have nothing else to sayBje , can g o right ahead, becaus(Ble(j care if they hang me." Be The Court adjourned untlBoor the afternoon, wbcn the rcBurn dence will he taken at her — Kiihv