ATTEMPTED MURDER

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 148, 19 December 1911, Page 5

ATTEMPTED MURDER

3£AN ATTACKS WOMAN. AND CUTS HER THROAT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. This afternoon, a man named James Gibbons attempted to murder Mrs. Eliza McKenzie, a married woman, living at 110 Queen street. Sydenham, by cutting her throat with a razor. Gibbons, who was a lodger at the house, was resting in his room while Mrs, McKenzie and two friends were playing cards in the kitchen. Mrs. McKenzie went through and 1 invited Gibbons to come and have some dinner, when he suddenly rose up, knocked her down, and produced a razor, with which he inflicted a wound in her throat. She screamed for help, and the others in the house, a married couple, came to her assistance, and pulled the man aweiy. Mrs. McKenzie got up and rushed to a neighbor's house, where she was followed by Gibbons, who again attacked her and inflicted another wound on her chin and hand. Gibbons 'Was tackled by a couplie of men, thrust out inito the yard, and finally knocked out. < The police were sent for, and Gibbons after a struggle was taken into custody by Constable O'Connor. The woman is likely to recover, though the wounds she received are serious, the carotid artery being exposed.