Stabbing Cases.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 7286, 14 August 1893, Page 1

Stabbing Cases.

(By Telegraph.)

WELLINGTON. August 12.

A German named Mossner was brought into town from Levin this afternoon by a constable on a charge of stabbing an Italian named Ooltano Mari. The two men were mates and slept at the Temperance Hotel last night. Two other men had been in the room. Mari was stabbed three times in the back with a pocket knife while in bed, but none of the wounds are supposed to be serious. There had been a quarrel, and Mossner is suspected to be insane. August IS. Mossner, who was arrested for an outrage at Levin on Friday night, has been declared a dangerous lunatic, and remanded to the asylum. Yesterday afternoon a collision took place on Adelaide road between a cart driven by a Chinese gardener named Lee Long, and an expressman named Hindle. The latter was arrested on a charge of drunkenness, and subsequently a friend of bis created a row with Lee Long. The Chinaman was badly worsted, and in defence drew a pocket knife and stabbed his assailant, John Matthews, in the neck, inflicting a wound half an inch deep, but not of a dangerous character. Lee Long was also arrested. He is in a very weak state.