STRANGE CHARGE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 725, 28 December 1933, Page 3

STRANGE CHARGE

MAN ACCUSED OF FOLLOWING HIS WIFE WJTH A 5TILETT0. , [ AUSTRIAN INCIDENT. Vienna, Novemher 4. Married to a Viennese woman, a London ma.u has been put in gaol at Gratz, Austria, on the sensatdonal allegation that day after day he had followed his wife with a stiletto in his possession and with the dntention to do her injury. (His name is stated to be Alfred ~ Gordon Gibbs, and he is said to have lived in'Woodmansterne Road, Streatham, S.W. The police ffdmit that he has made

no attack on his wife, but "have arrested him on a charge of intent to dnflict bodily harm on her and with disorderly conduct. H© was separated from his wife, and aecording to official reeords, he was deported from Austria in February, 1933. Mrs. Gibbs, if this is her true name, has been staying recently at the summer resort of Haeckerberg, and is said to have been accompanied by a man friend, also from Vienna. (Mr. Gibbs is stated to have retumed to Austria in September and to have commenced at once a vigorous. search for his wife. When at last he got on her trail he is said to have taken a room near her. Alleged Fight with Police. / iSuspicions were aroused, siay thie police, among the people in and J around Haeckerberg' by his constant inquiries for "Frau Gibbs." In consequence, gendarmes called upon him to inspect his passport. This they reported ito have been made out ordginally in the name' of Reginald Horac© Gibbs, who-, they say, is the accused man's hrother, and they added that' the surname had heen changed to "Gobbson." This being brought to Mr. Gibb's notice, they allege he snatched the passport and tried to destroy it. He is also accused of attacking and injuring a gendarme before he was j overpowered and handcuffied. j Then, the police report adds, the stiletto was found upon hdm. Mr. Gibbs is stated to claim that ' he is a eommercial traveller employed on the Continent by a firm in Nottingham.