KNIFE IN HEAD

Feilding Star, Volume 11, Issue 4179, 28 February 1934, Page 6

KNIFE IN HEAD

GILBERT ISLANDER SLRVIVES OPPONENT FATALLY STABBED (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) Suva, Feb. 17 A remarkable occurrence is reported a shaving- taken place on board tlio steamer Nauru Chief, while at the Gilbert Islands. For three days a native had a knife stuck in wts forehead as the result of a fight with another native, and! he is alive to tell the tale. A photograph sent to Suva shows the man with his head in bandages and the knif esticking out from his forehead. When off the island of Abaian ?wo two Gilbertese who were being returned as labourers from Ocean Island had a quarrel about a woman. One man drew his knife andi struck with all his force at liis opponent's forehead. The wounded man ( holding the other man with one hand, reached behind him and seized his own knife and plunged it into his opponent’s body. The stab killed the aggressor, but the man who held the knife in his head for three clays is still alive, and now well. A considerable lengt of the blade had penetrated the head. How the man survived is a mystery. About the same time a native woman cut off the head of her father-in-law as the result of a family quarrel. The Gilberts are still far from being really civilised. —Auckland Star special.