SAVED BY A PIECE OF WHALEBONE.
. Dunedin, March 11. A case of stabbing took place this afternoon in Maclaggan street. A woman named Emily Shea entered a second-hand shop, and was followed in a few seconds by her husband, Peter John Shea, who asked her what she was doing there, at the same time producing a penknife," and stabbing her in the abdomen. He was about to repeat the blow when Hamilton, the shop-keeper, restrained him until assistance . came, •• when Shea was given into custody. The woman was examined by a doctor, who found a wound on the left side of the abdomen. It is not considered serious, but the woman appears to have had a narrow escape, for had not the knife struck the whalebone in her corset, it would have penetrated much deeper. Shea was under the influence of drink at the time. The relations with his wife have been much strained of late.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1202, 15 March 1895, Page 36
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