ALLEGED RAZOR SLASHING
MAN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 29. Alleged to have slashed Jarnes Mackcn with a razor in Tory street on December 19, James Joseph Cavanagh, aged 41, a labourer, was committed to the .Supreme Court for trial by Mr J. L. Stout in the Magistrate's Court to-day. Cavanagh pleaded not guilty to the charge, which was of assaulting Macken so as to cause actual bodily harm. The case was begun on Wednesday, but Macken was held to be too intoxicated to give evidence. He was ordered to be kept in custody for a night, and his evidence was heard today.
Evidence was given that Macken, following an encounter with Cavanagh, was taken to hospital with a wound four inches and a-half long in one cheek.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24828, 30 January 1942, Page 6
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