Stabbing Affray

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4430, 1 July 1909, Page 3

Stabbing Affray

GUM DIGGER S’ QUARREL

Auckland. June 23. News was received from Helensville this evening that a serious stabbing affray had occurred at Kumeu on Monday night, the victim being a man named John Hansen Scott. Scott and a man nam°c John Nelson were drinking in the latter’s whare anc quarrelled, and it (is alleged that Nelson gat on top of Scott and inflicted nearly a dozen wounds on parts of the body with a knife. After the attack Scott crawled into the bush and remained there all night in an unconscious condition, beingMiscovered early this morning and taken to the Hospital,

Nelson is said to have taken his arrest very quietly, merely remarking : I suppose I will get a year or two for this.”