SLASHING WITH RAZOR

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 26 May 1932, Page 5

SLASHING WITH RAZOR

CHARGE AT AVELLINGTON. ARGUMENT OUTSIDE HOTEL. (By Telegi.pb—Cress Association.) WELLINGTON, Alay 25. A blood-stained razor and a grey cap, badly slashed and covered with blood,' were the principal exhibits in the Magistrate’s Court to-day when John Richard Anderson, alias James Pope, aged 25, a labourer, appeared before Mr. E. Page S.M. and was subsequently committed to the Supreme Court for trial on a charge of wounding Owen Mulholland and Cornelius Clark at a city hotel on May 7 with intent to do grievous Bodily harm. In evidence. Detective Alurray said Anderson made a statement, in the conse of which he said that Mulholland picked an argument with him in the hotel. Later he and a big fireman waited for Mulholland outside the bar. Anderson could not remember what happened then. He said he was a pretty bad-tempered sort of fellow. He could not remember using a razor, and did not know what happened. He realised the seriousness of what he had done and was sorry for it. He had been drinking heavily from the Wednesday to the Saturday night, and at the time of the happening he was drunk. He was sure he would not have used a razor on another man if he had been in his right senses. He -was satisfied that he alone used the 'razor.