ALLEGED STABBING

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 July 1936, Page 5

ALLEGED STABBING

WOMAN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL

SYDNEY. Jline 20.

At the Central Police Court yesterday, Carleen Raines, 27, domestic was committed for trial on a charge of having occasioned actual bodily harm to John Surnmers, at Sydney, on April 15. Constable Dunn said that Raines said she had stabbed a man, but not intentionally. The man, who was drunk, had come into-the cafe where she was employed, and said he wanted fry and bacon. When she told him they had none he called her offensive names. “I pushed him to the door of the cafe and on to the footpath,? witness said Raines told him. “He walked towards me, raised his hand, and, as I thought he was going to strike me,. I stabbed him with a knife. That is all I can remember.” \ To MA Leonard (fof Raines )■-witness said that Raines was a-respectable hard-working young She went to the police station of her own accord. John Summer’, marine' fireman, said he was drinking all the morning, and his mind was a blank as j to how he came by the wound in his left side, as he was too drunk. He an in. mate of ’ the 'hospital' for '22 days, and could not follow any occupation noW, as he was too short-winded. He had never spoken to Raines in his life. Mr. Shepherd' said that on the evidence there wap ,-strong,^provocation,• but he thought Raines was not entitled to stab a person? becausC 'she thought he was going to strike her. He thought an excessive amount of force was used. There was a-prima facie case.