Riverhead Stabbing [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1377, 30 April 1881, Page 3

Riverhead Stabbing [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Auckland, Last Night. TiiK sailor, who attempted to murder Annio Carline at Riverhead, was brought np at the Police Court and remanded. The girl has been sent to the hospital. The wounds are severe, but it is probable she will recover. The prisoner has made the following statement ot affairs : — "He never loved 9 girl as he did Aunie Carline; he loved her as his own life, and when he heard that she had been flirting with another man, and when upon charging her with it she expressed her intention of throwing him (prisoner) over for Ross, he «rew so angry, no caieless of the "consequences, that he determined upon her destruction. Without giving her any clue to his intention he asked her to come out for a walk, which she at first refused. A little pressing induced her to accede. They walked away from the house together, going towards the old dam, beteween Deacon's and the railway. Over this dam lay a plank or log, upon reaching which he desired the girl to go over first. She quickly complied. Going close behind her Sims toon a knife, which he had in his possession, and stabbed her it the back of the neck, near the right shoulder. The girl turned round to defend herself, pres&ing her face to him ; the knife descended a second time, making a deep gash in her neck near the left shoulder. Ho struck at her again, but only sue ceeded in lascerating the girl's hands, with which she warded off the blows, As he lifted the knife a second time, he said to her ' give me a kiss before you die, and say you love me,' and the girl being truly in danger of immediate death replied, 'don't kill me, for I love you still.' His next words were, ' no, it's too late now.' But he ceased attacking her, as her words inspired him with just the faintest ray of hope." These facts the prisoner furnished while pacing restlessly up and down the cabin of the steamer with a sorrowful and desparing look, saying, " he did not care whether he was hanged or not, if he would only be allowed to occupy a patch of ground adjoining the grave of the girl he loved." He came out as mate of the t>hip Wanganui, by which the girl was a passenger, and was engaged to her. tSlie took service at Helensvile, where she met with his rival Ross, a young man employed on the Minnie Casey, who forstalled Sims in the girl's affections, while Sims was away seaman on the schooner Clansman.