CRIME IN MARLBOROUGH.
The Expt-ess of January 9, says : " Our police report contains this week an unusual amount of crime. Early on Tuesday morning a stranger was discovered breaking into the Eainbow Hotel, Blenheim, and although he managed to gain possession of some loose silver in the till, he was caught and handed to the police. He ha 3 since been rewarded with six months' quartersin Picton gaol for his dexterity. —At Havelock, a man named Pope threw an adze at another man who was at work on a house-top, and nearly severed three of his fingers, besides inflicting a wound about seven inches long in his thigh. The Bench very properly committed him to JNelson, for trial at the next sittings of the Supreme Court. The man lies in a very precarious state from the injuries received.—We hear too of a man at the Grove (near Picton), who, it is alleged, deliberately shot his wife in the breast with a gun. When our informant left, he had not yet been taken into custody, and the neighbors Were picking out the shot from the poor woman's breast. The same man some time ago nearly bit off three fingers from another person's hand."
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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 453, 16 January 1869, Page 3
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202CRIME IN MARLBOROUGH. Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 453, 16 January 1869, Page 3
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