FEARFUL INJURIES IN RAZOR BATTLE
SHIP'S CARPENTER SUCCUMBS.
Australian Press Association. Received Sunday, 7.0 p.m.
SYDNEY,} Jan. 20.
James Blair, aged 60, a ship’s carpenter, was murdered with a razor during a drunken quarrel in a city lodging house last night. Malcolm McKinnon has been arrested, charged with the murder. Blair's face and neck were dreadfully slashed; one side of the face being gashed from temple to neck and a second cut right across the face from .cheek to check, while his jugular vein ■was servered by a cut extending to the left breast. Blair lived only a few minutes.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 January 1929, Page 5
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