SEAMAN STABBED
FRACAS AT BLUFF MAN SENT FOR TRIAL INVERCARGILL, To-day. At the Bluff Police Court this morning Anthony McHale, a seaman on the steamer Cumberland, was committed for trial for inflicting bodily harm upon William Power by striking him with a knife. The evidence showed that the men had been drinking, and during a quarrel the accused had seized a knife from the table and struck Power. A doctor gave evidence that he had extracted about half the blade of a table knife from Power’s ear. The blade had followed the base of the skull. The facial nerve had been severed and McHale suffered partial facial paralysis. The knife missed important blood vessels and nerves.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 78, 23 June 1927, Page 1
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116SEAMAN STABBED Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 78, 23 June 1927, Page 1
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