SLASHED WITH KNIFE
FATHER ATTACKS SON TEMPER OUT OF CONTROL A father who attacked his son with a knife appeared at the Police Court to-day. The accused was Houston Stewart, aged 55, who admitted assaulting John Skinner Stewart. Sub-Inspector McCarthy said that accused was a man of ungovernable temper. During a dispute he had attacked his son with a bread-knife, and cut him on a hand. Mr. J. F. W. Dickson, who appeared for the complainant, said that the.i'amily was in terror of the accused. It was thought that he might not be quite normal. Stewart was remanded for observation.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 330, 16 April 1928, Page 11
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