RAZOR SLASHING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21976, 10 June 1933, Page 5

RAZOR SLASHING

A WHIPPING ORDERED. A case of razor-slashing came before Mr Justice Macfarlan in the Criminal Court in Melbourne last week, and hi« Honor, in addition to a term of Imprisonment, ordered a whipping. David M'Laughlin, 26 years, a hairdresser, had been convicted of having wounded hi* father-in-law, William Frederick Jordan, with intent to do him grievoun bodily harm. The prisoner had been living apart from his wife, and ho went to 9e« her on the night of April 3. He saw her, but towards midnight asked for her again, and threatened to break every window in the house if he did not sea her. Jordan went outside. The accused flashed a razor, and drew it across Jordan’s right arm, inflicting a wound five inches long and three-quarters of an inch deep. His Honor said the offence was a very serious one, and, in addition, there were prior convictions. The prisoner was under the influence of liquor at the time, but that was no excuse for attacking hia father-in-law with a razor. Any man who struck another with a razor should be made to smart himself. The sentence would be imprisonment for two years, and he would order M'Laughlin a whipping of ten strokes with a, cat o’ nine tails within six weeks from the time of the passing of sentence. . ■ .