WOMAN STABBED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24817, 17 January 1942, Page 8

WOMAN STABBED

WIFE OF INSPECTOR POLICE ALLEGE VENDETTA SYDNEY, Jan. 10. Allegations of a vendetta against a Water Board inspector were made at the Parramatta Police Court, when Frank Ragonesi, aged 40, market gardener, was charged with having inflicted grievous bodily harm on Rita Agnes Shaw, at Horsley road, Guildford, on January 2. The police stated that Mrs Shaw, wife of the inspector, was suffering from two knife wounds in the arm and injuries to her face. Detective Sergeant Wilson said, in evidence, that Shaw had been policing the Water Board’s regulations in a district where there were many alien gardeners. Detective Sergeant Wilson added that Shaw had been awakened one night at his home recently to find a small lire from a kerosene-soaked bag under the house. Early on the morning his wife was injured, a stone had been thrown through a window. Shaw went in search of the stone-thrower. When Mrs Shaw went outside, Detective Sergeant Wilson continued, a man seized her and pulled her into the laundry, where he inflicted two knife wounds in her arm. Another stranger appeared and punched her on the face. Mrs Shaw had a bad fall on the floor. Ragonesi was remanded to appear on January 14. Bail was refused.