UNUSUAL INCIDENT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 264, 6 October 1936, Page 12

UNUSUAL INCIDENT.

SEQUEL TO BROKEN FLASK

Ter Press Association. WELLINGTON, Oct. 5. With his clothing saturated in blood, .and blood oozing from his shoes a young man staggered up to a taxidriver in Boulcott Street in the ‘oaily. hours of this morning and demanded to be driven to his home. Such was his condition that the taxi-driver refused to let him enter the vehicle. Telling the driver to say nothing about the occurrence, the injured man disappeared leaving a trail of bloodstained footsteps behind him. Later, at 1.45 a.m., William Cox. a taxidriver, reported to a constable whom lie met on the corner of John and Riddiford Streets that he had seen a man lying on the footpath in Adelaide Road close to Hall Street. In the meantime the Taranaki Street police had been investigating a trail of blood-stained footsteps and having traced them for a considerable distance. handed, the inquiry over to the Mt. Cook police. Investigating Cox’s report the constable found James McLennan Duffy, of 6 Liverpool Street, Miramar, lying in a pool of blood, having apparently walked three miles before losing consciousness through loss of blood.. He was able to stand up, but immediately collapsed and was taken in a taxi to the hospital. Later inquiries revealed that in the vicinity of Boulcott Street or the Terrace he fell somewhere near Plimmer’s Steps and broke a bottle in his hip pocket. He received a deep wound two inches long which bled freely, and had already lost a considerable amount of blood when he approached the taxidriver in Boulcott Street. At the hospital three stitches were inserted in the wound, but afterwards he was allowed to go homo.