FATALLY STABBED.
HORROR TN A GUTTING. JEALOUS ENGINE DRIVER WITH A KNIFE. ONE KILLED, ANOTHER FATALLY INJURED. (By Electric tran'“ —Oonyrieht). (Aust. and fSi.Z Cable Association.) (Received Feb. 26, ].1.5 a.m.) Brisbae, Feb. 26. While three men were walking through a cutting between Halifax and Macknade at night they were set upon by a man with a knife, who evidently waited there. .John Lawson received two severe' stabs in the back and is not expected to recover. William Harriss received a deep stab in the chest and died shortly after. The Condition of the third man is at present unknown. Both injured men arc engine-driv-ers. The attack is said to he due to jealousy. David Ballinghal .another enginedriver, gave himself up to the police at Halifax soon alter the occurrence.
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Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 471, 26 February 1925, Page 5
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