MAN BADLY INJURED

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 18 May 1928, Page 9

MAN BADLY INJURED

ATTACKED WITH AN AXE. CHARGE AGAINST WOMAN. EARLY MORNING AFFAIR. (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN, May 18. At four o’clock this morning a woman aged 28, walked into the North Dunedin police station and reported that she had attacked a man with an axe. The police went to the house, at 162 King .Street. There they found Charles Wilt red Waldren, married, a man aged 33, sitting on a bed with his head badly injured. The bed was covered with blood. Waldren’s injuries were being tended to by a relative. The man was removed to the hospital with one ear cut off and with other severe head injuries. An argument is reported to have caused the asaults.

The woman was charged in the Police Court this moyiing with assaulting Waldren so as to cause actual bodily harm. Her left eye was blackened. A week’s remand was granted. Her name was suppressed in the meantime. Bail was refused, as the police stated that the man was lying in hospital in an unconscious condition. The accused, was a married woman separated from her husband and was living with Waldren.