A WALKER STREET STABBING CASE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2429, 3 October 1900, Page 29

A WALKER STREET STABBING CASE.

A WOMAN WOUNDED BY A MAN

A married woman named Mary Ann Windsor, whose husband, it is believed, lives in Wellington, was brought into Mr Price's chemist's shop, at the foot of Walker street, on Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, suffering fiom an ugly; gash in the face. Bloocl wo 3 floving freely from the wouad, and saturated tho upper portion of the woman's clothing. From the few inquiries he made, Mr Price caused the police to be communicated with, and a telephonic message sent for a medical man. Meanwhile he attended to the woman's injury. It was found that the right cheek had been pencil ated by- some sharp instrument, and that the intoricv of tho mouth had also been injured. Mr Price dressed the wound, and made the patient's position as tolerable as possible till Dr Brown arrived. The Tatter lost no time in putting in an appearance, and ordeicd her removal to the hospital. The police immediately proceeded to make inquiries- into the matter, with the result that a labourer named William Nichols, a single man, of about 45 years of age, was arrested on a charge of assaulting the woman, with inient to do her serioujj. bodily harm. The injured woman is verjf reticent about the matter, but, so far as can be learned, it appears that she and Nichols had a quarrel about some money matters in a house in Walker street where the woman lives. Whether Nichols threw a knife at her or slabbed her with a knife is not exactly known, but -the latter is probably the case. The wound in the face was evidently caused by a knife or some sharp instrument. - It is 2iin long, just above the angle of the jaw, and running in a downward direction. The instrument passed through the cheek, . and inflicted a wound on the floor of the mouth underneath the tongue. The injury is not a dangerous one.

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