Stabbing accidental
Christchurch detectives are satisfied that the young woman found with knife wounds on Monday night had accidentally stabbed herself. The woman was found bleeding in a telephone box off Latimer Square about 8.30 p.m. after she had telephoned the police. She is Mrs Norma Elizabeth Higgins, aged 28, who was reported to be in a comfortable condition in Princess Margaret Hospital last evening, with a knife wound to her stomach. It was at first thought that the woman.might have been
! the victim of a stabbing, but > the police were not now ! looking for any other person, I said Detective Sergeant J. Ell after he had interviewed 1 the woman yesterday. : Detective Sergeant Ell said ) the accident had apparently I happened after the woman had been using a butcher’s • knife to cut up cat meat in > her Barbadoes Street flat. Detective Sergeant Ell said ; the woman told him that she - had seen a prowler through > the open back door of the flat, turned to run away, L slipped, and fallen on the i knife.
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Press, 27 August 1980, Page 3
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