A YOUNG LADY STABBED BY A LOVER.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3070, 29 April 1881, Page 3

A YOUNG LADY STABBED BY A LOVER.

(BY TELEGRAPH.)

Auckland, April 29.

A sailor at Riverhead stabbed a young girl, aged about nineteen years, of prepossessing appearance, who had been on a visit to that place. On learning of the facts, two railway porters and a stoker started off in pursuit of the would-be murderer, and they found him at a house giving the girl, whom he had a few hours before attempted to deprive of her life, mijk with Upon being informed, of the mission of the i visitors' he im-; mediately yielded himself up. On one of them remarking that he had no handcuffs nor anything to bind him, he said, " Qh,< I will go quietly with you ; there need be\ no apprehension on that account," 'and 1 : kept bis word/ He was brought -to the station, and after being searched was allowed his liberty, which was Hot oheyed, for he walked up and down the platform several hours apparently quite unconcerned. While being searched by Constable Naughton a penknife was found, and upon observing it the accused said, " That's not the knife I done it with ; Bradley has it." When arrested he confessed to having committed the deed, saying, "I stabbed the girl through love; Ross caused me to do it." The reasonable inference from these words is that he and Ross were rival suitors, and, possibly thinking Ross the more favored, and prompted by jealousy, he madly wreaked his vengeance on the object of his affection, which was no sooner done than he relented, for he was found quite mild and submissive and feeding her like a baby. He further remarked nonchalently, " I know I shall be hanged if the girl dies." The young woman is stabbed in two places, and the sufferer's condition is considered very serious.