DOMINION NEWS.
A PASSPORT QUESTION. £y Telegraph.—Press Association. „ Wellington, April 29. ihe charge against Volaire, a French pugilist, of landing in New Zealand without authority, was dismissed, the Magistrate holding that the documents Signed by the military officer in Australia, produced by the department, came within the definition of a passport. r ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE. Wellington, April 29. James Newberry, charged with the attempted murder of Mrs. Cooper and her sister, Miss Skjoth, was committed for trial. The evidence was that he was engaged to Mrs. Cooper nt one time, but the engagement was broken off. During the night of April 8 Newberry got into her house and assaulted both women with an iron bar. The medical evidence was that Mrs. Cooper was the more seriously injured of the two. Such a weapon was just as likely to kill as to injure, Newbeny had "been severely wounded at the front and had been in hospital practically all the time since j he returned.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 April 1920, Page 3
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