ATTACKED BY A MAD WOMAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14465, 3 September 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)

ATTACKED BY A MAD WOMAN.

A sensational razor .attack by a madwoman on another woman occurred at the village of Allihies, County Cork. While Mrs. Minnie Kelly, a young woman, was sitting alone in an upper room of her house, Helene> Lowney entered, closed and bolted the front "door, and ascended the stairs. Mrs. Kelly saw her rushing into the room with a razor in her hand, and closed with her. After a desperate struggle she succeeded in wrenching the razor from Lowney, and flung it across the room. She then tore herself free from her assailant and made for the door, but as soon as sho gained the head of the stairs she was again attacked from behind and flung over the balusters. Although silo was badly hurt by the fall sho managed to reach the front door and began to unfasten it. Lowney had by this time recovered the razor, and attacked Mis. Kelly once more, slashing savagely at her head and neck. At length' Mrs.'Kelly stumbled into the street, and fell fainting from loss of blood. Lowney left the house by a back door, and ran to the altar in the Roman Catholic chapel, where she severed _the arteries in both her wrists. Mrs. Kelly is in a critical condition, and Lowney, who has been pronounced insane, is also in a weak state..