SLASH WITH KNIFE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 125, 23 November 1943, Page 3

SLASH WITH KNIFE

FURLOUGH, MAN'S ASSAULT O.C. PALMERSTON N., This Day. A young married man whose name was suppressed till he comes before the Supreme Court in Wellington for sentence, pleaded guilty in the Palmerston North Magistrate's Court yesterday to a dfeiarge of assaulting a youth aged 18, to cause him actual bodily harm. , The circumstances as revealed by the evidence taken showed that the accused returned on furlough from the Middle East to discover that his wife and the youth had been more than friendly. The husband called on the youth, who admitted his responsibilities both morally and financially. Later, however, the husband paid a return visit to the youth and during the interview slashed the youth's left cheek with a pocket-knife from mouth to ear. He gave the youth a newspaper clipping to read and attacked him while his attention was thus distracted. "I decided to teach him a lesson so that he would leave other people's wives alone," the accusedl said in a statement to the police, adding that he had covered most of the blade with his hand so that the injury would not be a severe one.