MURDERED ON DOORSTEP

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20786, 3 August 1929, Page 15

MURDERED ON DOORSTEP

MAN STABBED IN GROIN. DEATH FROM LOSS OF BLOOD POLICE MAKE AN ARREST. (Special to Dailt Tikes.) AUCKLAND, August 2. Stabbed in the groin with a knife, Thomas Levy, aged 40, a labourer, was fatally injured at the door of his house in Nelson street shortly before 7 o’clock to-night. One man has been arrested in connection with the affair and charged with murder. His name is George Caff cry, a quarter-ca,ste negro. The murdered man lived with two others, David Carmody and George Frederick Cole; in the house, which is a small one of four rooms set slightly back from the street. Together with another • man, Jamea Gallott, they* returned to the house early in the evening and spent some time there drinking in one of the front rooms.* - > Shortly before 7 o’clock a 'knock was heard at the front door of the house, and Levy left the room to answer it. The other, three heard him in conversation. with someone and a scuffle -followed. Hearing a cry, "I have been stabbed,” they rushed to the 'door, finding Levy lying on the doorstep with blood streaming from a wound in the right groin. There wj£s then no sign of anyone in the vicinity. ' The men carried the wounded mob into the house, laying him upon a bed in the room they had just vacated. Efforts to stem the flow of blood were made, one of the men tearing up a shirt and applying it as a rough tourniquet. However, their efforts were of little use, the blood continuing to flow freely. Gallott was sent to obtain a doctor, and for this purpose he entered a nearby store to use the telephone. The St. John Ambulance was sumirpned by the owner of the store. The ambulance officer found the injured man lying on a bed which was devoid of bedding or mattress. He was supported by one of the other men,- who was holding his hea.d. up and keeping the tourniquet in place. ' ' ,

It was impossible to move Levy in the condition he was in, and another and more efficient tourniquet was applied. The man was then in a very low condition; and his death occurred on the way to the hospital..