STABBING CASE
! INJURY TO WOMAN YOUNG MAN FOR SENTENCE (P.A.) DUNEDIN, this day. Richard McQueen, aged 21, a naval rating, pleaded guilty in the Police Court to-day to a charge of doing actual bodily harm to Miss Nellie Ingle Duncan, a taxi-driver, on the night of January 7. The charge arose out of an incident on the night in question, when McQueen, on leave from the North Island, hired a taxi to take him to an address on Otago Peninsula. Unable to find the address, he drove back to Mornington, and as he stepped put ot the taxi stabbed Miss Duncan in the side with a heavy sheath kniie, which passed within three-quarters of an inch of her heart. He was remanded to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 34, 10 February 1943, Page 4
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