REMAND GRANTED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 7, 6 December 1932, Page 10

REMAND GRANTED

CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Dec. o. On a charge of attempting to murder Ruth Eleanor Corlet on November 14, Thomas Poison appeared on remand in the City Police Court to-day and was again remanded till December 16. The only evidence given was that by Terrence Arthur Mears Maunsell, a University student, who told a story of finding accused in the room of another girl in a boarding-house, of capturing him, and of subsequently allowing him to leave the house. With a broken left arm and scalp wounds, Miss Corlet was admitted to Dunedin Hospital in the early hours of the morning of November 14. It was alleged that she was attacked with a hammer in her room in a boarding-house in Queen Street. Fifty minutes after the girl was admitted, her alleged assailant, Thomas Poison, aged 47 years, walked into the hospital with a wound in his throat, probably inflicted with a razor. It was stated that the girl was asleep in her room when she was awakened by Poison. Until recently Poison had been keeping company with a young woman who was a friend of, and resided in the same house as, Miss Corlet. Apparently he went to the house in Queen Street to see the other woman, and entered Miss Corlet’s room in mistake. There was some discussion between the girl and Poison on the subject of the other woman, and the upshot, it is alleged, was that he struck the girl with a hammer, inflicting a wound on her head and fracturing her left arm. Poison left the house and returned to his own home, where \according to the police, he inflicted a wound on his own throat.