A STABBING AFFAIR.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13929, 10 July 1917, Page 8

A STABBING AFFAIR.

THE PALMBRSTON NORTH : CASE. ACCUSED COMMITTED -FOB TRIAL. WUBttmr (Per Pross Assciatioii.) ' PALMERSTON N., J.nly D> ; At the 'Magistrate's Court to-day, before Mr W. G. Kenneth,. S.M., George Jackson was charged that at Raiinie, on June 29th,- lie did kill Thomas Claude Grainmer Jackson, by stabbing him with a knife. The evidence was to the effect that the Jackson -family and three friends were at dinner when a knock was heard at the. door. Thomas Jackson and Mr Jackson went out. When George Jackson returned to the dining room ho kicked his chair into a corner and told his son to behave himself, Jackson replying that he would do as he liked in his own house, George Jackson ihen picked up a knife land said: "1. will .run this into your guts." • Thomas Jackson jumped away and told his father to put the knife down. Jackson came partly round the conier of the taole and struck at his son Tom with the knife, which was in his right hand. Jackson then threw down the knife, mid said: "There; I told you." Tom came round the corner of tlu? table, and struck his father, the latter falling to the lloor. The son Tom was making n further attempt to hit his father, when he was pulled aside, and then outside. He was carried in and put to bed. Thomas Jackson was taken to Palmerston to a private hospital, where he died the next morning.

Jackson, who reserved his defence, was committed for trial,