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(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PALMERSTON. * December 28. A man named John O'Brien oa Christmas Day most brutally assaulted his wife at the unemployed section of the Shag Valley railway, and had it not been for the timely interposition of a man named Edwards , wpuld probable.,haye murdered her. O'Brien was in the act of striking his wife with a tomahawk when Edwards wrested it from him. The-brute then went behind his tent, picked up a shovel, and threw it at her, striking her on the head, and inflicting a wound about 2§in. long. He was shortly afterwards arrested by the police, aud the unfortunate -woman wa? removed to the police station, where her injuries were attended to. She has since been sent to the Dunedin Hospital. O'Brien was brought up at the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, before J, W. Murdoch, Esq., R.M., and sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard labor.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 28 December 1880, Page 2
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