MAN STABBED ON DOORSTEP

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 264, 3 August 1929, Page 11

MAN STABBED ON DOORSTEP

DEATH FOLLOWS SOON QUARTER-CASTE NEGRO ARRESTED Dominion Special Service. Auckland, August 2. Stallbed in the groin with a knife, Thomas Levy, aged 40, a labourer, was fatally injured at the door of his house in Nelson Street sliortly before 7 o’clock to-night. One man has been arrested in connection with the affair and cliarged with murder. His name is George Caffery, a quar-ter-caste negro. The man lived with two others, David Carmody and George Frederick Cole, in a house which is a small one of four rooms set slightly back from the street. Together with another man, James Gallo tt, the three returned to the house early in the evening, and spent some time there drinking in one of the front rooms. Shortly before 7 o’clock a knock was heard at the front door of the house, and Levy left the room to answer it. The other three heard him in conversation with someone, and a scuffle followed. Hearing the cry: “I have been stabbed,” they rushed to the door, finding Levy lying on the doorstep with blood streaming from a wound in the right groin. There was then no sign of anyone in the vicinity. The men carried the wounded man into the house, laying him upon a bed in the room they had just vacated. Efforts to stem the flow of blood were made, one of the men tearing up a shirt and applying it as a rough tourniquet However, their efforts were of little use, the blood continuing to flow freely. Gallott was sent to obtain a doctor, and for this purpose he entered a nearby store to ring up. The St. John Ambulance Brigade was summoned by the owner of the store. The ambulance officer found the injured man lying on a bed which was devoid of bedding or a mattress. He was supported by one of the other men who was holding his head up and keeping the tourniquet in place. It was impossible to move Levy in the condition he was in, and another and more efficient tourniquet was applied. The man was then in a very low condition, and his death occurred on the way to the hospital.