CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED WIFE MURDER.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dckedin, Thursday. A middle-aoed man named George Child, employed as a painter, and living in Stafford Avenue, has been arrested on tho charge of attempting to murder his wife. He came home tho worse for drink, and his wife left him about midnight and went to bed. She woke up by finding her husband fumbling about the bed, and when she noticed nim found he had a knife in his hand. He seized her by the head and attempted to draw the knife across her throat. She succeeded in seizing the knife, but not before he had inflicted a slight wound under the chin. In the struggle between them the blade of the knife came out of the handle. The wound received by Mre. Child is of the slightest character. He was brought up at the Police Court and diacharged, hia wife saying that his action was merely the result of a drunken spree. She said she was not certain whether he had a knife in his hand or not.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9021, 6 April 1888, Page 5
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