ATTEMPTED MURDER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8162, 21 July 1906, Page 2

ATTEMPTED MURDER.

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ACCUSED SENT UP FOB TRIAL. FEB PBBBS ASSOCIATION. Wellington, July 20. > At the Magistrate's Court tu-iUy C:irl Mux Mielsch, a German, and a wh rf laborer by occupation, was charged with attempting to murder his wife, Maria Mielsch, on JVe 23rd. A gruesome exhibit in Court was a full sizud axe, with a jagged edge, the one prisoner wai alleged to have attauked his wife with. Prisoner end the woman Had been living apart for three weeks before the alleged offence was committed, Mielsoh had been convicted of biting his wife's nose.

Mrs Melsch, who was obviously in a weak state, said in evidence that she was with prisoner at his lodgings in Cuba street on the night of the 23rd and that he seized her by the arm and dragged her out into the yard, and struck her on the hea 1 with an axe.

Dr Hogg stated that he was called, to Easmussen's house, 130 Cuba street, on Saturday evening, June 23rd, between half-past eight and nine o!«lock. He found Mrs Mielsch suffering from a largo wound on the right side of the head, about four inches long, and penetrating to the skull. Thore was also a smaller scalp wound, running down and forward from the posterior end of the larger .wound. The second was from an inch to an inch and a half long. Both wounds might have been caused by an axe such as that produced. The blow must have been a particularly heavy one to have penetrated the skull The woman wos dazed, but conscious, and able to answer questions. Witness ordered h»r removal to the hospital. The wound was dangerous to life. ■ D r , Robertson, medical officer in oharge of the hospital, gave similar evidence as to the woman's injuries. Mrs Mielsoh had been in the hospital until the previous day. For tho first two or three days she was in a critical condition, and it was impossible to Bay w hat waß going to .happen to her. Chief DeteotiveMcGrath: I suppose the wound might have caused death P Witness: I cannot understand how it didn't. Other evidense was tendered "concerning Mielsch's movements on the night of the assault, and his attempt l to take his life when ar-restod, and k Mielsch was committed for trial,