STRUCK BY TOMAHAWK.
EMILY MORNING INCIDENT.
WOMAN ARRAINGED ON SERIES
OF CHANGES
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Aug. 0. At 'the 'Supreme (Court., Elsie 'Clara Babich pleaded nut guilty to charges descending in gravity from attempted murder of Wilfred Waldron on .May IS, to the less serious 'counts of causing bodily harm. The e vide hoc, 'was on the lines of that given in the court below. Waldren was a married man, separated from his wife and was living with the accused. The day before the attack, he struck her, blackening her eve.
Waldron stated that lie woke from sleep early in the. morning to find himself wounded by a blow from a tomahawk, an ear being nearly severed. ‘Cross-examined, lie denied that ho dragged the accused from her bed by the hair o-r that, the blows struck with the tomahawk were in self-defence.
A verdict of not guilty was returned.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 10 August 1928, Page 4
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