BLIND MAN STABBED

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 60, 8 September 1934, Page 11

BLIND MAN STABBED

SEYEEELY INJURED

ASSAILANT MAKES OFF (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, September 7. A blind pensioner was savagely attacked and stabbed twice in the back while at his homo early this evening. His assailant, who is unknown, escaped, and the victim of the assault was taken to the Auckland Hospital. His condition is serious. The blind man is Thomas Francis Coyne, aged 62, and married. Although seriously injured ■ and bleeding freely from two deep knife wounds* in the back, Mr. Coyne ,was able to give a coherent account of the affair. He said he had gon'e to bed early, as was his usual custom, but had occasion about 7.15 oclock to go into a living-room. He heard a man whispering, but did not catch the -words/Without warning the unknown man stabbed him twice, the knife inflicting two severe gashes in Mr. Coyne's back on the left side. Leaving the injured man, the assailant fled. In spite of his wounds, Mr. Coyne did not collapse immediately. Ho' called out to his wife, who was in bed, that he had 1)0011 stabbed, and' made his way back to the bedroom, where he fell to the floor semi-conscious. Mrs. Coyne roused relatives living next door, and the ambulance was summoned.