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Temuka Leader, Issue 1049, 30 May 1882, Page 1

Another Murderous Assault nr Auckland. —A uiurderous assault was committed in Auckland on Thursday morning. A woman named Olsen was asleep ni be l, when her husband attache i her with an axe, and split her head open. It is possible that she may recover. She has a terrible gash, four inches in length, under the left eye. Nina pieces of bone, embedded an inch deep, have been extricated. The cause of the assault was jealousy. The woman had a protection order, and hearing from the children that another man had cohabited with her, the husband went up on Wednesday night to effect a reconcilation She declined his overtures, and he returned to his vessel. About three o’clock on Thursday morning ho went back o the house and effected an entrance, taking an axe with him. He deliberately inflicted a t low with the sharp edge of the axo on the side of her face, and then lot t the house and gave himself up to the police Ho was brought, up at the Police Court for a murderous assault on his wife on Thursday morning and remanded for eight days. Later news states that Olsen, who committed on assault on his wife is a Norwegian, and a seaman on (ho steamer (Jhristi- a. The captain and crew state ho was temperate and quiet. The woman, Elizabeth Olsen, has been married twice, her first husband, by whom she had several children, being named Brown. The match with Olsen lias not been by any means a happy one. and quarrels led the Bench to gr nl the woman a protection order, and compel Ihe hn band to pay ,LT per week L maids her supporl. This happened lire monl hs ago. and as a natural consequence husband and wife haw been living apart.since tiun. lie 'unit to the house on Wednesday night with the object of effecting a iTvoncilai ion bnl, she refused his overtures ami declined to live with him again. He. laid down on a sola iu the parlor and she went inlo her bedroom, taking l"u of her children to s’ccp with her. A' midnight, he went out into the back uird, and is then supposed to have got. bold of an axe which \ww in (be yard. Three hours later nc attack d her in her sleep and tied otd of the lion-c. lie i< supposed to have attempted -mein-' at his vessel, which was liity yards distant, before or after, as the clothes he had been wearing were found wot on liio deck of the schooner, and he had changed lii- clot ims. After some time Mrs Olsen rcco'ercd consciousness at the Hospital, and seenied disposed to talk of the •i.-sanlt She say s she was married in June list to Olsen, her name before then having been alts Brown, and bat from the wry day of'.be "ending up to the present time, she inis i,een honneed, bullied and .lidrealed bv her imsb md. Mr- t 'hen is a robust. Woman of :J7 years of age, I»r (l oitlsbui'ougli visited her late last Thursday night, At the Hospital. She is now some" iin 1 better, and hopes are cut ei t aimal of her recovery. There is danger that, ery.-n das may set, in, hut. the copious ibov of blood '.'ill rt’ider is less imminent .