SUPREME COURT
DUNEDIN SESSIONS (By Telegraph.—Press Association; : ' i; DUNEDIN, This Day, ' j The. jury,) after hearing further evidence in the 1 case of Elsie Clara Pabich, who pleaded not guilty to charges descending in gravity from the attempted murder of' Charles Wilfred Walden on 18th May-to less serious counts of causing. bodily harm,' returned a verdict of not guilty. .. ' • \-" . ■ ; DTJNEDIN SESSIONS '' DUNEDIN, This Day. At the Supreme Court, Elsie Clara* Babich pleaded' not guilty to charges descending in gravity from the attempted murder of qharles Wilfred Waldren on 18th May to less serious counts of causing bodily; harm. . ■'"'■'■ Evidence was on. lines of that, in the Lower Court. , • J Waldren, a married man, separated from his wife, was living with accused. The day before the attack he struck her blackening her eye. Waldren stated that he woke from sleep early in the morning to find himself wounded by/;a blow from, a tomahawk, his ear being nearly severed. .Cross-examined he denied that dragged the woman from the bed by her hair, or that the blows struck with the tomahawk were in self-defence.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 10 August 1928, Page 4
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181SUPREME COURT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 10 August 1928, Page 4
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