A FATHER'S CRIME.
TYXAN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Mou<lay. In the Police Court, William Tynan was charged with the attempted murder of his daughter Evelyn, whom lie waylaid when she was leaving school and cut her throat with n razor. Prisoner sat through the proceedings unconcernedly, as liaving apparently only a spectator's interest in the evidence, though occasionally he displayed signs of nervous stress. Detective McMahon stated that prisoner when arrested expressed a desire to be hanged witliout delay. Mrs. Tynan stated that lier husband had threatened her previously with a razor, but she had never 'heard hiin threaten lier children. Her husband had been drinking to excess. Tynan, when asked 1 to plead, remained silent and was committed for trial* ; ,
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19140602.2.46
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 12, 2 June 1914, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
124A FATHER'S CRIME. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 12, 2 June 1914, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in