ALLEGED ATTEMPTED MURDER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 1 June 1914, Page 7

ALLEGED ATTEMPTED MURDER.

ACCUSED COMMITTED FOR TRIAL

BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION,

AUCKLAND, June 1. At the Police Court "William Tynan was charged with the attempted murder of his daughter Evelyn,, whom he waylaid -when she was leaving school, and cut her throat with a, razor. Prisoner sat through th* proceedings as unconcernedly as if he had only a spectator's interest in the evidence, though occasionally he displayed signs of nervous stress. Detective McMahon stated that prisoner, when arrested, expressed a desire to be hanged without delay. Mrs Tynan stated that her husband had threatened her previously with a rasor, hut. she never lieard him j threaten her children. Her husband! had been drinking to excess. Tynan, when asked to plead, remained silent and was committed for trial.