WOMAN STABBED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 January 1942, Page 4

WOMAN STABBED

HUSBAND ACCUSED ALLEGED ATTEMPTED MURDER. DEPOSITIONS OF VICTIM TAKEN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, January 15. In a small room at the Auckland Hospital today a special sitting of the Magistrate’s Court was held before Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., to take the depositions of Phyllis Rose Weir, aged about 26, who was admitted last night with a knife wound in her chest. On a chair at the foot of the bed sat William Weir, aged 20, labourer, of Otahuhu, who was charged with attempting to murder his wife. A doctor gave evidence that the woman was suffering from a serious perforating wound on the upper front region of the right chest and that her present mental capacity was equal to giving evidence. The injured woman, whose depositions were taken on a typewriter, said that she was married in November last. They lived for three weeks at _ a boarding-house. Her husband was working at the Otahuhu'railway workshops. They were unhappy together, her husband accusing her of going out with someone else, which was untrue. One night her husband struck her on the face and punched her on the chest. She then went to live with her mother at Otahuhu, but two weeks ago she went to stay with friends. Mrs Weii’ said that she was then working at the Westfield freezing works. She had three children by a previous marriage. Her husband called to see her and said he wanted to discuss a separation order. When she said she had left him because he hit her, he said that was not a good enough reason. He grabbed her by the throat and tried to choke her. Friends intervened and she went inside. Her husband called again at 5 o'clock last evening, and she agreed to meet him later to see a letter which he. wanted to show her. He was sober. She met him at the school gates at 7 o’clock, but declined to go to a shelter shed to read the letter. “He just lost his temper, and pulled a knife and stabbed me in the right side of the chest. He tried to carry me to the other side of the street, and threw the knife into the trees. I asked him to get a doctor. When he crossed the street I ran to the house where I was stopping.” The hearing was adjourned till tomorrow morning.