ATTACKED WITH RAZOR
MAN WOUNDS HIS WIFE TWO MONTHS IN PRISON [by telegraph—press association] WELLINGTON. Wednesday "I cannot look on the injuries, the wife received as other than fairly serious ones," said Mr. E. Page, S.M., today in sentencing George Victor Reed, aged 38, seaman, to two months' imErisonment on a charge of assaulting is wife, Anabella Reed. When accused pleaded guilty, SubInspector Martin said that accused and his wife had apparently had some drink, the accused more than the wife. They had some difference, and accused attacked his wife, wounding her in the throat with a razor. A wonjan heard shouting from both parties and intervened. Fortunately, she got the wife away from accused and t!bok her to her home. Subsequently, the sub-inspector added, the injured woman was taken to hospital. The doctor's report stated that there was a cut 4in. long in the woman's neck and she had numerous bruises about the face and chest, and also that there was the probability that she had received a fracture of a rib. Fortunately, tho matter did not turn out to be as serious as anticipated, and the woman was discharged next morning. Tho fact remained, however, that the accused used a razor on his wife.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21578, 24 August 1933, Page 11
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