SIGNS OF STRUGGLE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 January 1940, Page 4

SIGNS OF STRUGGLE

MAORI GIRL AND MAN IN HOSPITAL. APPARENTLY SUFFERING FROM STAB WOUNDS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI. January 1. A Maori girl, Haku Haddon, aged 17. and Wiripo Potaka, aged 31, were admitted to the Wanganui Hospital on Sunday, both suffering from what appeared to be stab wounds. The girl was the more seriously wounded of the two. There was a deep wound in her back and another not so serious in her scalp. The man was wounded about the collarbone just above the chest. The police are making inquiries. Mrs O. Haddon, who had been living at Gonville during the holiday period, heard screams coming from the diningroom where her daughter was laying the table for the midday meal. Mrs Haddon tried to open the dining-room door but found it locked. She called to George Ellison, a university student who has been spending his leave in Wanganui. He managed to get into the room through a window, but he had no sooner disappeared into the room than Miss Haddon came diving through the closed window, her body smashing the glass. She was found to have a deep wound in her back and was bleeding profusely. There was also a wound in her scalp and others in her arms which may have been caused by the jagged edges of the glass as she went through the closed window. Inside the room Ellison found Wiripo Potaka and he too was bleeding and evidently suffering from a wound in his chest. There was a short sheath knife nearby. . . Both the injured people were taken to the hospital and it is reported that their condition is satisfactory.