BITES HIS SWEETHEARTS NOSE OFF.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 276, 27 May 1907, Page 2

BITES HIS SWEETHEARTS NOSE OFF.

A LOVER'S PECULIAR DEMONSTRATION. [PBE PBEBS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, May 27. Thomas Mackay, aged 25, on Saturday night, bit off apportion of the nose of Eliza Mary Hall, aged 21. The accused was at one time engaged to Miss Hall, who resides with her father and sisters at Hanover street. Some months ago the couple went to Melbourne, which is Mackay's birthplace, to be married, but the lady changed her mind and returned to Dunedin on Saturday, Mackay accompanying her. In the afternoon they were walking along Castle street in company with Miss Hall's sister, Frances, who was a short distanoe in advance by herself. On Frances looking round she noticed the other pair stopping. . Miss Hall began to scream, and cried out that her nose was bitten. The suffering' girl was taken to the hospital where the doctors reported her permanent disfigurement. In the evening Mackay went to Hall's house, when he appeared to be very penitent, and went to the length of requesting Hall to kill him. It is further reported that he was seen to have taken up a weapon with the object of killing himself. He has been placed under arrest. '