MALICIOUS HARM ALLEGED.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 January 1929, Page 6

MALICIOUS HARM ALLEGED.

PARTICIPANT TO STAND TRIAL,

SEQUEL TO SHOOTING DUEL

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph

- Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) NEWCASTLE, Jan. 30. John McKoou, aged 39, was commitled for trial on a. charge of having maliciously intlicted grievous 'bodily harm on William McQuirk. A doctor in evidence stated that thirty stitches had to be inserted in the wound on JlcQuirlt’s face, the wound being an inch deep in places. A message from Newcastle on January 12 stated that two seafaring n, named William McQuirk, ageu 29, and John McEwan, aged 37, were found by the police in a room bearing ghastly injuries, the marks of which they will carry all their lives. lie police said that a woman watched a deadly razor duel in which the men were wounded. Iflood streaming from slashes in tlieir heads and bodies. Both, victims refused to give the police any information. Twenty-one stitches were inserted in a wound oil McQuirk’s face and McEwan’s nostril was either bitten or cut clean off. The men were covered from head to foot with blood, which also bespattered the room.