200 STITCHES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 83, 9 March 1925, Page 5

200 STITCHES.

WOMAN’S TERRIBLE INJURIES

MELBOURNE, Feb. 18. Terrible injuries about the head and neck were sustained by Florence Rebecca Jones, a young married woman, in the house of a Chinese at Fitzroy, on December 26. At the hospital 20 wounds were treated, and between 160 and 200 stitches were inserted. Her nose was almost severed.

Wah Lee, a cabinet maker, was today charged with having wounded Mrs Jones, and alternatively, with having assaulted her with intent to cause bodily harm. The Cnwn Prosecutor, Mr Dean, said Mrs Jones had lived with Wall Lee for some months. On Christmas Day she had left the house, and Wah Lee had found her ■in a hotel and brought her home. An altercation had occurred, and Mrs Jones had jumped through the glass of a closed window into tho street. Wah Lee came to the door covered in blood, and a neighbour heard Mrs Jones scream.

Wah Lee denied that he had hit the woman with the chopper. He said she had rushed at him with a bottle, and when he fended that off, she picked up the chopper. He got hold of her hands and wrenched the chopper from her. She then jumped out of the window.

Wah Lee was found not guilty and was discharged.