AMAZING CASE.
WOMAN CHARGED. ASSAULT ALLEGED. VISIT PAID TO CHINESE. CHBISTCHUBCH INCIDENT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Armed with a skinning knife, a bottle of chloroform and blood test tubes, a woman walked into the consulting rooms of Wallingford Chan, Chinese herbalist, last night and attempted to slash him. This part of the story was told in the Magistrate's Court this morning when a young woman was charged with assaulting Chan. Chief Detective Dunlop told Mr. Reid, S.M., that the young woman, whose name was suppressed in the meantime, had alleged that she intended to kill Chan. yhe alleged that Chan was the father of her child, and she wanted to get blood from him to make a blood test. "In view of the extraordinary nature of her allegations, I would ask that she should i;e remanded for a week in custody for medical observation," he said. In remanding the woman in custody till October 31 for medical observation, the magistrate said it was desirable under the circumstances that her name should be suppressed.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 253, 24 October 1936, Page 7
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175AMAZING CASE. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 253, 24 October 1936, Page 7
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