ALLEGED STABBING.
DRAMA OF ESTRANGED COUPLE
Savin" that he had no statement of any kind to make, Philip Phillips, a street hawker, of Humbertson Road, Aldgate, was sent for trial by the Stratford Bench on the charge of attempting to murder his wife by cutting her throat, and with attempting suicide. At the last hearing Mrs. Phillips declined to give evidence. The allegations were that Phillips, who had not seen his wife for three years, went to her house at Ilford and stabbed her with a penknife several times. She rushed into the street and the police took her to hospital. A constable who entered the house found Phillips lying on the floor in the kitchen with wounds in the Phillips, a daughter, said her father' called at the house and asked for her mother. She told him to go away, and he said, "It is your mother I want. You are not in it. I'll get her m the end."
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 134, 8 June 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)
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161ALLEGED STABBING. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 134, 8 June 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)
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