TWO MAORIS STABBED
Man And Girl Taken To Hospital AFFAIR IN WANGANUI (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI. January I. A Maori girl. -Jlnku Haihlon, aged 17, and Wiripo Potaka, aged 31, were admitted to "Wanganui Hospital yesterday. both suffering from what appeared to be stub wounds. The girl was the more seriously wounded. There was a deep wound in her back and another not so serious in her scalp. The man was wounded about the collarbone just above the chest. The police are making inquiries. Mrs. O. Haddon, who has been living in Gonville during the holiday period, heard screams coming from the din-ing-room where her daughter was laying the table for a midday meal. Mi's. Haddon tried to open the diningroom door but found it. locked. She called lo Mr. George Ellison, a university student, who has been spending his leave in "Wanganui. lie managed to get into the room through a window. He had no sooner disappeared into the room than Miss Haddon came diving through the closed window, her body smashing the glass. She was found to have a deep wound in the back and was bleeding' profusely. There was also a wound in her seal)) and others in her arms, which may have been caused by the jagged edges of glass as she went through the closed window. Inside the room Mr. Ellison found "Wiripo Potaka, and he too was bleeding and evidently suffering from ti Svound in liis chest. There was a short sheath knife nearby. Both the injured people were tak en to hospital and it is reported that their condition is satisfactory.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 84, 3 January 1940, Page 12
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