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

Another Mprdehous Assault xx Aitck.LAifjj.—A murderous assault was committed in Auckland on Thursday morning. A woman named Olsen was asleep m be t, when her husband attacked 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 lie 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 axe on the side of her face, and then left the house and gave himself up to the police Ho was brought up at the Police Court for a murderous assault on Ins wife on Thursdaj morning and remanded for eight days. Later news states that Olsen, who committed nn assault on his wife is a Norwegian, and a seaman on the steamer Ohristi' a. The captain and crew state he 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 has not been by any means a happy one, and quarrels led the Bench to gr'iit the woman a protection order, and compel the hu band to p>iy XT per week tjwards her support. This happened fiTe months ago. and as a natural consequence husband and wife liavr been living apart since thin. .He went to the house on Wednesday with the object of effecting a rci-oncilatiou but she refused his overtures and declined to live with him again. Hi - - laid down on a sofa in the parlor and hhe went into her bedroom, taking tv.o of her children to s'eep with her. A' midnight lie went out into the back yard, and is then supposed to have go!, hold of an axe which was in the \ard. Three hours later nc a!tack d her in her >leep anil fled out of the house, lie is supposed to have attempt ed -uicide at his vessel, which was LOO yards distant, before or after, as the clothes he had been wearing were found web on the deck "I' the schooner, and he had changed his clothes. After some time Mrs Olsen recovered consciousness at the Hospital, and seemed disposed to talk of the assault. She says she was married in June i:i-t to Olsen. her name before thou having been ?d is llruwn, and hat from the wry day of :he wedding up to the present time, she iia- been bounced, bullied and dl-lrealed by her hiisbmd. Mi's Olsen is a robust, woman of .'>7 years of age. I"r (M«ldsborough visited her late last Thursday night, at the Hospital. She is now somewhat better, and hopes are entertained of her recovery. There is danger that, ery.-n clas may set in, but. the copious tlow of blood will render is less imminent.