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Temuka Leader, Issue 1049, 28 December 1882, Page 1

Another Murderous Assault ix At/ck.land. —A murderous assault was committed ill Auckland ou Thursday morning. A woman named Olseu was asleep m be t, when her husband attacked her with an axe, and split hor head open. It is possible that she may recover. She has a terrible gash, four inches in length, under the left eye. JN T ina 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 lie returned to his vessel. About three o'clock on Thursday morning ho went buck o the house and effected an entrance, taking an aso with him. He deliberately inflicted a ! low with the sharp edge of the axe on the side of her face, and then left the house and gave himself up to the polico 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 aa assault on his wife is a Norwegian, and a seaman on the steamer Christina. The captain and crew state lie was temperate and quiet. The woman, Elizabeth Olaen, 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 tlie Bench to igi"nt the woman a protection order, and ; compel the hu band to piy £1 per week ! tjwaids her support. This happened fiTe months ago. and as a natural consequence ; husband and wife have been living apart since I tin m .lie went to the house on Wednesday • night willi the object of effecting it I rci'otieila'iou but she refused his overtures ami declined to live with him \ again. He. laid down on a sofa in the i parlor and she went into her bedroom, : taking of her children to s'eep with her. A' midnight lie went out into the back yard, ■ and is then supposed to have got hold of an axe which was in the \ard. Three hours i later nc attack d her in her sleep and fled j out of the house, lie is supposed to lniTe 1 attempted -uieidc at bis vessel, which was i LOO yards distant, before or after, as the clothes he had been wearing were found wefc on the deck of the schooner, and he had changed his clothes. After some time Mrs j Olsen recovered consciousness at the Hospital, and seemed disposed to talk of the M-sault She says she was married in June !a-t to (•'.sen. her name before then having 1 been Mrs Urowii, anil hat from the very day .of '■ he wedding up to the present time, she iia- been bounced, bullied and dl-1 routed by i her uuslmuil. Mrs Olsen is a robust woman !of o 7 years of age. In- (u.ldsbomugh visited i her late hist Thursday night-, at the Hospital. j She is now somewhat better, and hopes are < entertained of her recovery. There is danj ger that erysa clas may set in, but the i copious tlow of blood will render is lessimmii nent.