ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE.
VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY. Dunedin, August 9. In the Supreme Court to-day, Elsie Clara Babich pleaded not guilty to • charges descending in gravity from the attempted murder of Charles Wilfred Waldron on May IS to less serious counts of causing bodily harm. The evidence was on the lines of that given in the Court below. Waldren, a married man separated from his wife, was living with accused. The day before the attac.k he struck her, blackening her eye. Waldren stated that he woke from sleep early in the morning and found himself wounded by a blow from a tomahawk, his ear being nearly severed. Cross-examined, lie denied that he dragged accused from bed by the hair, or that the blows struck with the tomahawk were in self-defence. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3830, 11 August 1928, Page 2
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138ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3830, 11 August 1928, Page 2
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