AN AGGRAVATED ASSAULT.
WELLINGTON, June 9. At the Magistrate's Court to-day Peter Williamson Tait was committed for trial on a charge of assaulting David McCall and Martha Munday m a boardinghouse on May 28. Tait and McCall quarrelled about a letter which the former had given the latter to deliver. Tait called McCall names, whereupon McCall struck Tait, who, it is alleged, stabbed McCall several times with a knife. Mrs Munday, the landlady, m attempting to separate the men, was stabbed m the leg. Accused pleaded not guilty.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7818, 10 June 1909, Page 1
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88AN AGGRAVATED ASSAULT. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7818, 10 June 1909, Page 1
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