ATTEMPTED MURDER AT CARTER. TON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1560, 15 December 1883, Page 2

ATTEMPTED MURDER AT CARTER. TON.

An attempt at murder ocourred on Wednesday evening on tbe Morton Roid, leading oat of Carterton oaatway, opposite Fairbrotber's store, A man named Alexander Anderson, formerly a cook for Mr Car:, road contraotor, bad been drinking nearly the whole day in Carterton in company with a woman with whom he had been living, While going along the road abovo mentioned they had some' .words, Anderson accusing the woman of not being trao to kirn. From words he got to blows and then deliberately took, hold of her by tho neck and stabbed her with his pocket-knife two or three timeffj saying as he did bo, "If you like anyone better than me you can hive this," A farmer named Edwarda siw the whele affair, bat he seems to have thought discretion the better part of valor, and kept away until Anderson mado off, leaving the woman bleeding profusely. Edwards then went forward and tied all handkerchief round the woman's; neok. Dr Smith was called, who stitched, the wound up, and gave orders for the ivoman to be oonveyed to the hotpitt) at Greytowu, Mr Moore taking her in his trap. Arrived.aMhe hospital, Dr Bey ; attended to the sufferer, and this moiajßg the appeared to be getting alofigfWW',

. ® nt ropotlot had a conversation With her this morning, ami found that Bn# BUa Anderson had lived on vety good terns together for some thno, ■ He was jealous of her, and frequoutly accusod hov of being too intimate with another porson,' About a fortnight ago Andoraon got a bottle of spirits and .enticed this person • to.dnnk withlnm, ' Wheii thoy W e both well on, 1 Anderson picked d V. Cfuatrel aud they, h&d a-''' set'to. The womau says, that ,since Anderson came , out of tho Weillbgion hospitah .where he. :.had spent six. w.eeks, Bufforing from an ipjary which he received to Ono of his . eyes, ho has been more quarrelsome than Bofore leaving Carterton on tho \ '..-sight of tho assault Anderson :M3 in Mr Peters bootmaker's shop, and he there ijmrjienod his knife, so that it appears as if US had deliboratoly made ( up his mind ■beforehand to tako, tho woman's life. ' Constable Darby, the constable stationed ;at Carterton, ,was away at the Mustorton.Opaki races when tho nows came into , CartortoD, and it was not till 10 o'clock ' that he returned; He at onco got a trap and startod off in pursuit, and,on reaching • Carr's camp, learned that Anderson had sold his bedding to somo Scandinavians, and left,, taking with him ■' his^son,' aged four years, When tho trap varrived at the junction, thoro was a doubt "Which way. to procoed, when Constable '• Dftrby suggested looking for tracks. ; These having been found, Anderson was ' traced as far as Mr Ray's hotel. Anderson ' thus intended, by taking.>ihis oirouitous course round to Mr Ray's, to put tho police off the scent. Mr Ray, on being round up, statod that Andoraon had called there and aaked for a bod, and on being refused, stated his intention of going to the " milkman's," On arriving at Booth's farm, tho constable called in . at Mr Judd's,. and found that a man and 'a loy had arrived at his house about an hour before, and had askod for lodging, _ slating that they had travolled far and "the' boy was knocked up. This was enough, and Constable Darby at onco arrested him on a charge of attempted murdor. When questioned, tho prisoner \aß very sauoy, and did not appear in(tod to give any account of what had trwfred.—Standard.