WOMAN WITH RAZOR.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 205, 30 August 1926, Page 10

WOMAN WITH RAZOR.

LOCKS HERSELF IN HOUSE. . ATTACKS AMBULANCE MAN. TAKEN TO ASYLUM. (From Our Special Correspondent.) SYDNEY, August 26. A demented woman at Black Rock, Victoria, gave police and ambulance men a torrid time before she was overpowered. One of the ambulance men had his wrist severely cut when he attempted to get inside the place. The woman, who had been in an asylum previously, was released to the care of her husband, who noticed a change in her demeanour on Saturday morning. In the afternoon she was definitely mad, for, brandishing a razor in her hand, she threatened to kill herself or anyonj who came near her, and ran from ;oom to room of the place. She made an attack on her husband, and, when he ran from the place, she locked all the doors and barricaded them. He called the ambulance and the police, but she refused to open the doors to them, and when one of the ambulance men broke a window near the lock and put his hand inside to open it, she rushed in and almost cut hi 9 hand off with a sharp slash from the razor. Arteries in the man's wrist were severed, and medical opinion is that the wound will not heal for at least 12 months. Wh?never anyone looked in the windows she rushed at them waving the razor menacingly, and for three hours she had everyone at bay. Subsequently a mounted constable got her husband to attract the woman's attention at the front door, while he burst in the back. As soon as he was inside, she wheeled round and rushed him. but, fortunately, he managed to grasp her hand with the razor, and grappled with her. She resisted violently, and it took several men to overpower her. As she continued to resist, she was placed in a strait jacket and taken back to the asylum.