A HAMILTON SENSATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 20, 17 February 1909, Page 2

A HAMILTON SENSATION.

A WOMAN STABBED. UEIi JIISIIAND ARRESTED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. llamilto.il. Tuesday. A -serious stabbing affray occurred here yesterday. It appears that last night' the 'police were called ill to a house a-nd found a. married woman •named Luck lying seriously injured with n, wound in her abdomen. The doctor was called in ami he ordered her removal to the hospital. The husband was in Hie house when the police arrived. (In being -questioned he completely denied having committed the deed,'.saying that about at 10 o'clock bis wife was on a couch and complained of being HI. She .showed her husband tile wound and he immediately went for a doctor.

Lock was arrested on suspicion", but he maintained his denial of the affair. The wound, which is thought to have been caused by a knife, pierced the inteslines. The woman's condition is serious. Later. A curious circumstance has occurred in connection with the Lock stabbing case. Mrs. Lock was waited upon by a Justice of the Peace at the Hospital this- morning. She refused to make, any depositions regarding lhe stabbing, re-, lily ing. in answer to a i|iicslinn, that •die had nothing to say. She was pressed to sjiv liow the incident happened, but steadlaistlv refused lo do so. Lock is. it painter bv trade, about 33 years of age. .Mrs. Lock is nliout the same a^e. Neighbors interviewed alleged that lhe, couple lived very unhappily, having frequent quarrels. Lack was said lo be quite a sober man, though subject to life of frenzy. iThey have been married several' years and' have six children. Although the all'air took place between 3. and 4 o'clock, the doctor was '.io,t called in till 7,30, when the victim's condition became serious. Lock appeared before the Court charged,with having wifully wounded Aguc,s Lock, and was remanded till tomorrow.